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2003-12-17 Iraq
Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive
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Posted by phil_b 2003-12-17 3:47:33 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#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||   2003-12-17 4:29:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2003-12-17 4:30:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2003-12-17 5:32:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 nice catch, JFM.
Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-17 5:59:00 PM||   2003-12-17 5:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2003-12-17 10:59:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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