Was it really the US that 'got him'?

[acmavm]

posted December 30, 2003, updated 1:35 p.m. ET

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1230/dailyUpdate.html?s=mes

Reports persist that Kurds first captured Hussein, drugged him, then left him for US troops.

By Matthew Clark | csmonitor.com

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It's become a world famous phrase: "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."

More than two weeks after the US civil administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, uttered those words at a press conference in Baghdad, reports continue to circulate that Saddam Hussein was first captured by a Kurdish-led intelligence unit, drugged, then put into the "spider hole" to be taken by the US military.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that US forces took Mr. Hussein into custody Saturday, Dec. 13 around 8.30 p.m. local time, but "sat on the news" until 3 p.m. the next day. However, the Herald points out that in the early hours of Sunday, Dec. 14 a Kurdish language wire service reported explicitly: "Saddam Hussein was captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). A special intelligence unit led by Qusrat Rasul Ali, a high-ranking member of the PUK, found Saddam Hussein in the city of Tikrit, his birthplace."


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Notice how this is being compared to the Jessica Lynch fiasco?

[tinrobot]

1. My question is this...

If the Kurds put him in the hole, why did they let him have a suitcase filled with $750,000...

[desi]

2. My question is..

...where in the world would Saddam get a suitcase full of brand new US currency..??? Bremer..??? Did not Bremer make an "emergency" visit to Wash DC shortly before he was captured and did not Rumsfeld make a "surprise" visit to Northern Iraq at about the same time. If it quacks like a duck...

[arcane1]

3. if the Administration claims he had that money...

then it's suspect

they told us Lynch fired all of her ammo before being captured

they had us believe the US Navy has expensive banner-making equipment on-board their vessels

Bush claimed that the IAEA said Iraq could attack us w/nukes in 45 minutes or less

Colin held up a vial of anthrax that had no resemblance to the anthrax that Saddam got from us in the 80's

anytime they add details to a story to provide the "color" that Slimy McLellan praises, then we have every reason to grab the proverbial pinch of salt.

remember the boy who cried wolf?

or how about this- fool me once, shame on me. Fool me every goddamned day, then to hell with you

[Skittles]

5. you believe the silly story about the money?

COME ON

[Demeter]

4. Truth Detection 101

If it were true, they wouldn't have to do any spinning, and there wouldn't be that annoying foul smell.