The Loss of an Army
 

“There are five portents of the Mahdi. These are a cry from Sufyani, Yemani and Sama, the sinking of an army in Bayda and the killing of the innocent.” (Narrated by Nu’aym ibn Hammad)

  

 

... An army will be sent to him. This army will be leveled to earth while they are somewhere in the desert. (Sahih Muslim)

  

 

An army comes to fight; once they enter the desert, the one on the front and the back disappear and the ones in the middle can not save themselves. (Tirmidhi Hadiths, Sunan Ibn Majah, Sunan Abu Dawud)

  


(Vatan, April 11, 2003) What happened to Republican Guards?
Republican Guards will be the biggest myths of the war. Soldiers who are told to save Baghdad and to fight for Saddam are lost....“What happened to the 60,000 Republican Guards and 15,000 Fedayeen?” is one of the most important questions after the war. Not a trace has been found of the troops known as Republican Guards or Fedayeen.

(Yeni Safak, April 11, 2003) During the hunt for Saddam, American forces discovered a hidden warplane… From the cold war era… According to information from the American ministry of defense, the warplane was buried by Saddam’s regime in the hot sand of the Takkadum airfield west of Baghdad. AFP

(Hurriyet, April 11, 2003)Saddam’s Loyal Men Are Lost
The most important question that is unanswered after the war is,
“Where are Saddam and his men?”

(Turkiye, August 13, 2003) Saddam’s warplane found in the sand.

The way that a large part of the Iraqi Army almost suddenly disappeared was one of the most striking features of the 2003 war against Iraq. Many newspapers and television channels reported that a 60,000-man army from the Republican Guard and some 15,000 Iraqi militia from the Fedayeen got lost. The way that this is indicated in the above hadith indicates that “the loss of an army,” one of the portents of the Mahdi, and hence of the coming of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), may have taken place. (God knows best.)

In fact, the finding of some war planes buried under the desert sands reinforces the possibility that the leveling down of an army described in the hadith refers to the Iraqi Army.