[HCDX] Saddam's home town on 1584 AM ...

["Johan Berglund" <johandx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 
thanks a lot Björn Fransson and Mauno Ritola for the work done on pinning down the name of the
station.  Tikrit surely fits my recording from Feb 5, at 1911.  The name of the town struck me as very familiar, and of course, it's Saddam Hussein's birthplace. And it has been in the news as a storage area for weapons of mass-destruction. Historically wellknown in many fields.  

I can only speculate about the real motives for the choice of name for this station. Another psychological tidbit in the war for minds ? Now we can probably only wait for what the BBCMS and other broadcast intelligence  sources have to say about it.  CRW ?  

A Google search for Tikrit  made me end up reading  the Israeli weekly web-mag Debka. Quite a lot to consume. No wonder I get some huge phone bills from time to time. 

73

Johan Berglund
Trollhättan, Sweden  

AOR AR7030, K9AY
         

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