1982 928 damaged in Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - U.N. Security Council - report
10-15-2003, 06:28 PM
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1982 928 damaged in Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - U.N. Security Council - report
Hi All,
I just had to pass this one along...I really should quit surfing the net for 928 informtion...
Best,
Tim
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Excerpted from a larger report (link to source below)…
UNITED
NATIONS
Distr.
Security Council
GENERAL
S/AC.26/2002/30
12 December 2002
Original: ENGLISH
UNITED NATIONS
COMPENSATION COMMISSION
GOVERNING COUNCIL
Page 6
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B. D4 (motor vehicle) issue
14. A claimant seeks compensation for the estimated cost of repairs to a 1982 Porsche 928 motor
vehicle that was damaged during the period of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The
claimant submitted an estimate from a Porsche dealer in Kuwait for the cost of repairs to the vehicle in
the sum of 7,000 Kuwaiti dinars (KWD). At the time that the Panel reviewed the claim, the repairs to
the vehicle had not been undertaken by the claimant. The claimant stated that he has not had the funds
available to undertake the necessary repairs to the vehicle. The Panel finds that the damage to the
vehicle was the direct result of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait and although the repairs to
the vehicle, which is in the claimant’s possession, have not been undertaken, the claimant has in fact
suffered the loss. In the circumstances, the Panel recommends compensation for the damage based on
the estimated cost of repairs to the vehicle.
Source:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache...n&ie=UTF-8</a>
I just had to pass this one along...I really should quit surfing the net for 928 informtion...
Best,
Tim
:D
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Excerpted from a larger report (link to source below)…
UNITED
NATIONS
Distr.
Security Council
GENERAL
S/AC.26/2002/30
12 December 2002
Original: ENGLISH
UNITED NATIONS
COMPENSATION COMMISSION
GOVERNING COUNCIL
Page 6
----------------------------
B. D4 (motor vehicle) issue
14. A claimant seeks compensation for the estimated cost of repairs to a 1982 Porsche 928 motor
vehicle that was damaged during the period of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The
claimant submitted an estimate from a Porsche dealer in Kuwait for the cost of repairs to the vehicle in
the sum of 7,000 Kuwaiti dinars (KWD). At the time that the Panel reviewed the claim, the repairs to
the vehicle had not been undertaken by the claimant. The claimant stated that he has not had the funds
available to undertake the necessary repairs to the vehicle. The Panel finds that the damage to the
vehicle was the direct result of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait and although the repairs to
the vehicle, which is in the claimant’s possession, have not been undertaken, the claimant has in fact
suffered the loss. In the circumstances, the Panel recommends compensation for the damage based on
the estimated cost of repairs to the vehicle.
Source:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache...n&ie=UTF-8</a>
10-15-2003, 07:06 PM
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Was it this one?
Nice shoes!
Nice shoes!
10-15-2003, 07:56 PM
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Saddam's boy, Uday, had a 928. I heard that this is the car he was in when he was shot up. Does anyone have any info on this car? Photos? Model Year? Color?
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10-15-2003, 08:55 PM
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I've heard from several sources that Uday was driving a 928..
From http://www.maximonline.com/articles/article_4211.html
"But Uday couldn’t help butting in. Early in 1996, he drove a metallic-gold 928 Porsche past a barracks of the Special Republican Guards. At that moment weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was standing curbside, preparing to lead his team inside. Uday roared past Ritter, screeched to a halt, and backed up until he was beside him.
“I’m alpha dog. I don’t put up with that stuff,” Ritter recalls. “So I’m standing there, staring this car down. Then the window rolls open, and there’s this idiot wearing these mirror sunglasses.”
The two men glared silently at each other. Uday revved the engine. Ritter refused to blink.
Uday laid down rubber.
The inspection team monitored all communications and later unscrambled Uday shouting on the phone about a “crow,” the name the Iraqis had for the weapons inspectors. “This goddamn crow is humiliating Iraq!” he screamed. “He embarrassed me in front of my soldiers! I want his ***. I want him gone!”
That night Uday’s security goons made their move to kidnap Ritter. Luckily, they were not only inept but also drunk. As they stepped from their SUV, one of them shot himself in the leg with his automatic weapon. His partner attacked the wrong vehicle, drawing his gun on a group of terrified Iraqi citizens.
Uday’s attempt at foreign relations became a popular joke in the bazaars and cafés of Baghdad. Worse than with all his previous transgressions, he was now an embarrassment to his clan. This line no self-respecting Iraqi could cross and survive.
You Die, Uday
The Tigris River makes a lazy S through downtown Baghdad. At the western end of the S lies the Mansour district. On Thursday evening, December 12, 1996, three groups of idlers carrying sports bags waited at an intersection. Just before 7:30, they saw the two white Mercedes led by Uday’s Porsche.
Uday had been on a roll. Months earlier Uday’s brothers-in-law, Saddam and Hussein Kamel, had defected with their families to Jordan. Pardoned by Saddam and nagged relentlessly by their wives, the brothers finally consented to return to Iraq if their safety would be guaranteed. However, no sooner had they crossed the border than Uday separated his sisters from the two traitors and had the two men confined at their family home in Baghdad. Hours later Uday and a unit of Iraqi Special Forces attacked the Kamel house, killing the two brothers, their father, their sister, and her three children.
The convoy slowed at the T intersection with Baghdad International Street. The “idlers” yanked AK-47s from inside their sports bags. The intersection exploded with gunfire. The gunmen, from a shadowy Muslim group named al-Nahdah—“the Awakening”—had tracked Uday’s movements for weeks. The gunmen sprayed bullets at all three cars.
One of the assailants saw Uday crouching underneath the dashboard and let loose a barrage at the Porsche. Although the bulletproof sides of the car deflected some of the fire, Uday was hit eight times. Another gunman ran up to administer the coup de grâce, but his rifle jammed.
As the members of al-Nahdah melted from the streets, the most hated man in Iraq lay bleeding. Rushed to the hospital and operated upon by Cuban-trained doctors, Uday barely survived, temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and impotent. While he was still unconscious, dark rumors began to sweep the upper ranks of the military that Qusay, or even Saddam, might have ordered the hit.
From http://www.maximonline.com/articles/article_4211.html
"But Uday couldn’t help butting in. Early in 1996, he drove a metallic-gold 928 Porsche past a barracks of the Special Republican Guards. At that moment weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was standing curbside, preparing to lead his team inside. Uday roared past Ritter, screeched to a halt, and backed up until he was beside him.
“I’m alpha dog. I don’t put up with that stuff,” Ritter recalls. “So I’m standing there, staring this car down. Then the window rolls open, and there’s this idiot wearing these mirror sunglasses.”
The two men glared silently at each other. Uday revved the engine. Ritter refused to blink.
Uday laid down rubber.
The inspection team monitored all communications and later unscrambled Uday shouting on the phone about a “crow,” the name the Iraqis had for the weapons inspectors. “This goddamn crow is humiliating Iraq!” he screamed. “He embarrassed me in front of my soldiers! I want his ***. I want him gone!”
That night Uday’s security goons made their move to kidnap Ritter. Luckily, they were not only inept but also drunk. As they stepped from their SUV, one of them shot himself in the leg with his automatic weapon. His partner attacked the wrong vehicle, drawing his gun on a group of terrified Iraqi citizens.
Uday’s attempt at foreign relations became a popular joke in the bazaars and cafés of Baghdad. Worse than with all his previous transgressions, he was now an embarrassment to his clan. This line no self-respecting Iraqi could cross and survive.
You Die, Uday
The Tigris River makes a lazy S through downtown Baghdad. At the western end of the S lies the Mansour district. On Thursday evening, December 12, 1996, three groups of idlers carrying sports bags waited at an intersection. Just before 7:30, they saw the two white Mercedes led by Uday’s Porsche.
Uday had been on a roll. Months earlier Uday’s brothers-in-law, Saddam and Hussein Kamel, had defected with their families to Jordan. Pardoned by Saddam and nagged relentlessly by their wives, the brothers finally consented to return to Iraq if their safety would be guaranteed. However, no sooner had they crossed the border than Uday separated his sisters from the two traitors and had the two men confined at their family home in Baghdad. Hours later Uday and a unit of Iraqi Special Forces attacked the Kamel house, killing the two brothers, their father, their sister, and her three children.
The convoy slowed at the T intersection with Baghdad International Street. The “idlers” yanked AK-47s from inside their sports bags. The intersection exploded with gunfire. The gunmen, from a shadowy Muslim group named al-Nahdah—“the Awakening”—had tracked Uday’s movements for weeks. The gunmen sprayed bullets at all three cars.
One of the assailants saw Uday crouching underneath the dashboard and let loose a barrage at the Porsche. Although the bulletproof sides of the car deflected some of the fire, Uday was hit eight times. Another gunman ran up to administer the coup de grâce, but his rifle jammed.
As the members of al-Nahdah melted from the streets, the most hated man in Iraq lay bleeding. Rushed to the hospital and operated upon by Cuban-trained doctors, Uday barely survived, temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and impotent. While he was still unconscious, dark rumors began to sweep the upper ranks of the military that Qusay, or even Saddam, might have ordered the hit.
10-15-2003, 10:34 PM
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That's a pretty interesting article.
There are several mentions of 928s in it.
Most noatbly:
"Just as he had lusted for Porsche 928s, Uday knew Qusay had a passion for thoroughbreds...."
There are several mentions of 928s in it.
Most noatbly:
"Just as he had lusted for Porsche 928s, Uday knew Qusay had a passion for thoroughbreds...."
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10-16-2003, 12:05 AM
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Several thoughts to follow-up on the responses to my initial post about the bonehead who made a claim to the U.N. about his war damaged 928. How much is 7,000 Kutwait Dinar (KWD) anway (in 1991 dollars)? I bet the U.N. eventually paid the guy too. Isn't the U.N. broke now?
What was Bill Cosby thinking when he made Leonard Part 6? A 928-based tank? Ballerina shoes (on a dude)?
I enjoyed reading the Maxim article on the brothers Hussein...what an idiot Uday was as exemplified in this quote :
"...Uday couldn’t help butting in. Early in 1996, he drove a (1995) metallic-gold 928 Porsche past a barracks of the Special Republican Guards. At that moment weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was standing curbside, preparing to lead his team inside. Uday roared past Ritter, screeched to a halt, and backed up until he was beside him. “I’m alpha dog. I don’t put up with that stuff,” Ritter recalls. “So I’m standing there, staring this car down. Then the window rolls open, and there’s this idiot wearing these mirror sunglasses.” The two men glared silently at each other. Uday revved the engine. Ritter refused to blink. Uday laid down rubber. (Source: Maxim Magazine - online http://www.maximonline.com/articles/article_4211.html
Cheers y'all,
Tim
What was Bill Cosby thinking when he made Leonard Part 6? A 928-based tank? Ballerina shoes (on a dude)?
I enjoyed reading the Maxim article on the brothers Hussein...what an idiot Uday was as exemplified in this quote :
"...Uday couldn’t help butting in. Early in 1996, he drove a (1995) metallic-gold 928 Porsche past a barracks of the Special Republican Guards. At that moment weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was standing curbside, preparing to lead his team inside. Uday roared past Ritter, screeched to a halt, and backed up until he was beside him. “I’m alpha dog. I don’t put up with that stuff,” Ritter recalls. “So I’m standing there, staring this car down. Then the window rolls open, and there’s this idiot wearing these mirror sunglasses.” The two men glared silently at each other. Uday revved the engine. Ritter refused to blink. Uday laid down rubber. (Source: Maxim Magazine - online http://www.maximonline.com/articles/article_4211.html
Cheers y'all,
Tim
10-16-2003, 12:38 AM
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So, not only was it a 928, but an ARMORED 928! I know some VIP security companies claim to be able to armor any car, but... any known armored 928s in posession of someone sane (or alive, for that matter)?
First time I've heard a Porsche called "bulletproof" in the literal sense.
First time I've heard a Porsche called "bulletproof" in the literal sense.
10-16-2003, 12:20 PM
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OK Y'all,
I did a little more research on a currency exchange website (http:// www.xe.com) to find out roughly how much damage the 1982 928 had suffered during our 1st Gulf War. Turns out that 7,000 KWD currently is quite a bit of money in USD. So, this fellow's 928 suffered quite a bit of damage according to the Kuwaiti Porsche Dealership (there's only 1, right?) where he obtained an estimate of the damages. I still can't believe that someone was seeking compensation from the U.N. for their war-damaged car. Since most, if not all, auto insurance policies (at least in the US) do not cover damage resulting from war, acts of God, and the like I guess I can undertand that the owner was pulling every purse string around. Anyway, here's the conversion info:
Live mid-market rates as of 2003.10.16 15:09:31 GMT.
7,000.00 KWD
Kuwait Dinars = 23,850.08 USD
United States Dollars
1 KWD = 3.40715 USD 1 USD = 0.293500 KWD
YIKES!!!
Best,
Tim
I did a little more research on a currency exchange website (http:// www.xe.com) to find out roughly how much damage the 1982 928 had suffered during our 1st Gulf War. Turns out that 7,000 KWD currently is quite a bit of money in USD. So, this fellow's 928 suffered quite a bit of damage according to the Kuwaiti Porsche Dealership (there's only 1, right?) where he obtained an estimate of the damages. I still can't believe that someone was seeking compensation from the U.N. for their war-damaged car. Since most, if not all, auto insurance policies (at least in the US) do not cover damage resulting from war, acts of God, and the like I guess I can undertand that the owner was pulling every purse string around. Anyway, here's the conversion info:
Live mid-market rates as of 2003.10.16 15:09:31 GMT.
7,000.00 KWD
Kuwait Dinars = 23,850.08 USD
United States Dollars
1 KWD = 3.40715 USD 1 USD = 0.293500 KWD
YIKES!!!
Best,
Tim
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I was in Kuwait during the war and I saw a lot of Iraqi soldiers driving in S and SL 500's. A lot of the soldiers were poor and were surprised to see cars that looked like that back then. They were amazed that a wall can spit money(ATM machine)!! I heard some of them were spreading lotion on bread thinking it was cream cheese! Thankfully we didn't suffer any damages so we didn't file for compensation.
And about the Porsche, the dealer ripped him off for sure just like any Porsche dealer. Specially since there is only ne dealer in the whole country which %90 of thier sales are cash! The dealership is owned by the president of Kuwait (Monarch), so you have no choice.
Old thread, sorry bumping it
And about the Porsche, the dealer ripped him off for sure just like any Porsche dealer. Specially since there is only ne dealer in the whole country which %90 of thier sales are cash! The dealership is owned by the president of Kuwait (Monarch), so you have no choice.
Old thread, sorry bumping it
