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| Iraq | |
| Wife laid trail to Saddam | |
| 2003-12-17 | |
| SADDAM Hussein was captured in a filthy underground hole because of the demands of the one woman he still trusted. She is Samira Shahbander, the second of his four wives. And now she may receive part of, if not all, of the $US25 million bounty the US Government promised for information that led to the capture of the Iraqi dictator. Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had been tailing her since she fled to Beirut, Lebanon, before the US invasion. In a tapped phone call last Thursday she arranged to meet the former dictator that weekend after demanding cash. But the meeting was cancelled at the last minute - perhaps because Saddam was beginning to feel the heat that US forces were closing in. Late last Friday, US soldiers captured an Iraqi fugitive they had been hunting since July - who is believed to have given them the former dictator’s exact location - a farm at Ad Dawr, about 15km from Tikrit, his ancestral home and where he was caught late Saturday. Last March, with the coalition forces closing in, Saddam arranged for Samira and their son Ali to flee to Lebanon. With her she took $US5 million in cash and a trunk of gold bars from the vaults of the Central Bank of Iraq. She told friends she was going first to France and then to Moscow - that Saddam had been secretly promised by Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, to give her sanctuary. Instead, she went to a pre-arranged hideout - a villa - in the Beirut suburbs. It was there that the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad discovered her. Mier Dagan, the head of Mossad, sent a team of surveillance specialists from the service yaholomin to bug Samira’s every move. The Israeli team noted that Samira - who may have also been colluding with US intelligence agencies without Mossad’s knowledge - had transferred most of her money out of Lebanon to a Credit Suisse bank account in Geneva. A month ago, Samira cashed in her gold bars for US dollars with a Beirut money dealer. Then she started to call Saddam. Supported by Israeli Air Force surveillance aircraft, the yaholomin tracked the calls close to the Syrian border...
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| Posted by:OMER ISHMAIL |
| #5 "Hell hath no fury....." BWHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!! Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2003-12-17 10:56:49 AM |
| #4 This whole story sounds quite unlikely. Israel would not have these sort of resources. The Americans knew his approx location, asked the right questions and a bit of luck. Bingo |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2003-12-17 7:58:54 AM |
| #3 The phrase "Jesus, man, buy yourself a freakin' CLUE!" comes to mind. (Or would that be "Allah, man, buy...") When your own family sells you out, that's usually a good sign that you're totally F**ked, and it's time to throw in the towel. In a weird way, it reminds me of that final scene in "Batman Returns".. you know, the bit where Danny Devito's flunkies (from the circus he'd grown up in) begin to slip away into the shadowy darkness and he's abandoned by everyone but his penguins? And Mr. Mustache doesn't even have that much. No loyal penguins, not one. It's pathetic when you're such a failure of a human being that even your own blood kin are willing to sell you down the road like a bruised tomato. Ed Becerra |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2003-12-17 4:36:14 AM |
| #2 " Who betrayed me!? My dog? How could little Osama do that to me! Why are you laughing? " |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-17 4:26:38 AM |
| #1 heh! Hey Sammy...who was it??? Your closest advisors, your doctor, your wife??? It had to be someone you trusted..and so far I've heard all of the above. What time is it, Sammy? Sammy! Wake up, Sammy!! |
| Posted by: B 2003-12-17 3:46:53 AM |