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| Iraq |
| Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive |
| 2003-12-17 |
| You gotta love Debka! They come up with seriously weird stuff. Severely EFL Saddam Hussein was not in hiding; he was a prisoner. After his last audiotaped message was delivered and aired over al Arabiya TV on Sunday November 16, on the occasion of Ramadan, Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25 m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead. The negotiations were mediated by Jalal Talabaniâs Kurdish PUK militia. These circumstances would explain the ex-rulerâs docility â described by Lt.Gen. Ricardo Sanchez as âresignationâ â in the face of his capture by US forces. He must have regarded them as his rescuers and would have greeted them with relief. Thats right The Americans rescued Saddam! HeHe! |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #5 LH, seem to remember discussion on Rantburg about Pakistani prisoners keeping firearms in jail. |
| Posted by: john 2003-12-17 10:59:13 PM |
| #4 nice catch, JFM. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-12-17 5:59:00 PM |
| #3 If that were true it would be the first time a gaoler allows the prisonner to keep a pair of AK47s. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-12-17 5:32:31 PM |
| #2 Debka stretched way too far with this one. It's right up there with CNN saying Saddam was living in that hole. It's pretty clear he was just hiding there due to the approach of US forces. His bodyguards let him down & covered the hole, but were a little bit sloppy ... As to how he looked, if indeed he has been on the run for 8 months, in some cases changing locations several times a day, most recently coming to a small hut with no indoor plumbing, and quite likely having been in similar bolt holes during other searches ... Well, you'd look like hell too if that's how you'd spent the last xxx weeks. |
| Posted by: rkb 2003-12-17 4:30:34 PM |
| #1 I read this on debka.com last week and do not buy. They stated that the he could not get out of the spider hole own his own. Well I saw the pictures and that stryefoam lid covering the hold did not seem that hard to open from inside. |
| Posted by: Dan 2003-12-17 4:29:02 PM |