مِنَ القرّاء الكرام مَنْ لاحظ صعوبة قراءة النصّيْن المؤطّرين على جانبي صور صدام حسين، في الطابع المرفق. ولأهمية المعلومات الواردة فيهما فضّلتُ إعادة نشرها منفصلة وأكثر وضوحاً مما تسمح به شاشة الكمبيوتر في إعداد الطوابع. 

 

وفيما يلي النصّين المؤطرَيْن في الطابع أعلاه.

SADDAM HUSSEIN FLOWN OUT OF BAGHDAD BY USAF

Intrepid independent filmmaker Patrick Dillon has returned from Iraq with some explosive interview and film footage, including of an Iraqi Army officer describing how he saw a US Air Force transport fly Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad.

Early on the morning of April 9th, as the remnants of his unit were close to being overrun, a general ceasefire was unexpectedly declared for 6.00 am. According to the officer, shortly after this went into effect, and in board daylight, a motorcade of 10 Mercedes stretch limousines suddenly barrelled onto the airfield, carrying Saddam and his entourage. Almost simultaneously, what the officer asserts were four USAF Hercules transports swooped down and landed on the lone stretch of intact runway. All four C-130s dropped their rear loading ramps and the limousines drove up into the cargo bays of the waiting planes, which then took off. The officer insists he has no idea where Saddam or any of the other members of his party may have gone. 

Dillon says his film lends major support to what many have believed for years: that Saddam was little more than an American tool, a stage-managed "evil-doer"—just one in a long line of useful villains bought and paid for by the United States in order to better manipulate international politics and commerce.

GRUESOME SECRET WEAPON USED BY US FORCES IN BAGHDAD

Patrick Dillon also interviewed eyewitnesses to a nightmarish US superweapon employed by American ground forces during street fighting in Baghdad. The tank-mounted secret weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power.

 Then, to his amazement, the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds, the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shrivelled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.