Attacking Iraq

Operation Planet X

On or about May 15, 2003 US Army forces raided a village near Ad Dawr and Al Dur, about 11 miles south of Tikrit. US forces were searching for Ba'ath party members and militants. The operation was dubbed "Planet X" and resulted in the capture of 260 prisoners including Gen. Mahdi Al-Duri Al-Tikrit Adil Abdallah from the United States' most-wanted list of former Iraqi officials. 230 of those captured were released the following day. Also detained were two sons of Lt. Gen. Al-Duri Izzat Ibrahim, Number 6 on the list, and five Special Security Office bodyguards.

News reports indicate that the raid lasted for roughly five hours and was carried out by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division and elements of Task Force Ironhorse. Planning for the operation took roughly one week and was based on intelligence from HUMINT sources.

At around 2 AM local time, US forces began to form a cordon around a nine-block area within the village and houses were then subjected to a house-to-house search involving some 500 soldiers. By the time the raid had ended at 7 AM nearly 200 houses had been searched. Other assets used include eighteen M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 12 field artillery pieces, some thirty HMMWVs, and six patrol boats.

The searches also resulted in the capture of seventeen bricks of plastic explosive.

What many in the media left out, however, was the irony involved in the naming of the operation "planet X". This is also the name given to the hypothetical 10th planet of our solar system expected by some to pass by the earth in the next several years.

In fact, this Planet X or 10th planet carries quite a bit in common with Iraq, though now in a military sense. Ancient Sumerian, or modern Iraqi, clay tablets speak of a return of this planet x, or Nibiru as called by the Sumerians, to our part of the inner solar system causing global cataclysms on earth. This documented on the same tablets looted from the Iraqi museum at the close of the conflict.

Robert Sepehr, producer of the Planet X Video (www.planetxvideo.com), has released an online documentary series on the topic which explores this possibility in detail.