Re: Now here's a little something to chew on
- From: "Roger" <rogerfx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:31:29 GMT
And UPI is owned by Moon, the ultraconservative owner of the Washington
Times.
"Joe S." <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=422B960A-26BA-4891-9E60-21C8818788D4
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> QUOTE
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> Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
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> United Press International
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> A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President
> Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
>
> Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi
> daily
> al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec.
> 12,
> 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
>
> "I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who
> searched
> for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found
> him
> in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou
> Rabeh said.
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> "We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese
> origin was killed," he said.
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> He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room
> on
> the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to
> surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."
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> "Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's
> capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.
>
> Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.
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> END QUOTE
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