This certainly makes more sense than any version of the story I've heard so far.
I'm sure Fox News and the rest of the Republican-funded media just managed to
miss this somehow in their "fair and balanced" coverage of the capture. And Rush
Limbaugh is already drugged, so maybe we can get the Kurds to stick him in a
spider hole, too!

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Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops
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LONDON, (AFP) - Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been
taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American
soldiers to recover him, a British Sunday newspaper said.

Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed
to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped
by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express,
which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.

The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi
president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq,
"exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".

A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the
paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front,
which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until he negotiated a
deal.

The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the
region.

An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express:
"Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence. We
knew that someone would eventually take their revenge, it was just a matter of
time."

"clamnebula" wrote in message
. ..
This certainly makes more sense than any version of the story I've heard
so far.
I'm sure Fox News and the rest of the Republican-funded media just managed
to
miss this somehow in their "fair and balanced" coverage of the capture.


And so did CBS, NBS, CNN, ABC The Washington Post, The New York Times,
The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times.
We all 'know' that these institutions are also part of the 'vast right wing
conspiracy'!

you have no traction, and no credibility.






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"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote:

"clamnebula" wrote
Subject: Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Yeah right, the Kurds were nice enough to leave Hussein
with guns and the documents he meant to keep with him.

This certainly makes more sense than any version of the story I've heard
so far.
I'm sure Fox News and the rest of the Republican-funded media just managed
to
miss this somehow in their "fair and balanced" coverage of the capture.

And so did CBS, NBS, CNN, ABC The Washington Post, The New York Times,
The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times.
We all 'know' that these institutions are also part of the 'vast right wing
conspiracy'!

The Bush bashers are so consumed with their hatred for him
that they refuse to give credit to the US armed forces and
specifically the US Army Fourth Infantry Division. Why? Because
giving credit to American forces would mean giving credit
to the Commander in Chief. They hate him too much for that.

"clamnebula" wrote in message
. ..
This certainly makes more sense than any version of the story I've heard
so far.
I'm sure Fox News and the rest of the Republican-funded media just managed
to
miss this somehow in their "fair and balanced" coverage of the capture.
And Rush
Limbaugh is already drugged, so maybe we can get the Kurds to stick him in
a
spider hole, too!

There is plenty of legitmate political ground to attack Bush on without
slandering the U.S. armed forces.

You don't have to be a patriot -- you can still slam national attitudes and
politics, and be politically correct.

But inwardly I cry at the way your statements hurt the young men and women
who are giving their lives, for very little compensation, for what they
believe to be our commonweal.

It's called being a *******.