Fruit on the vines? When was Saddam REALLY captured?

[jenk]

I was just watching the film we've all seen a trillion times, the spider hole, the little area where they nabbed Saddam. But I noticed one little strange thing. The vines in an around the area had fruit growing around them, and fruit NEVER grows there in mid December and I doubt the greenery was that lush.

[kalian]

1. Watch it...

you're asking for a one-way ticket to Gitmo. :D

[Dirk39]

2. The Yellow Unripe (UP-) Dates!

"Regarding the rumours raised about the unripe dates seen at the site of the arrest of Saddam (please see my article; The Unripe Dates, 17 Dec 2002), some reporters have visited Al Door area and met the farmers. Asharq Al Awsat newspaper tried to enter the site where Saddam was arrested but prevented from going inside by an American patrol. They then went to the neighbouring farms. The farmers affirmed that plenty of yellow dates exist now and will remain so until the end of March. They explained that the lack of fertilisation hampered the process of ripening by which the dates converted from hard yellow to a brown soft. The unfertilised dates called (Shees) or unripe dates. It will remain yellow for long time until the end of March. This was the case in the tree near Saddam's hiding place. It was like many other trees ignored (not been fertilised) due to the war. The usual process of fertilisation in Iraq carried out manually by taking the seeds dust from the males and put it in the flowers of the females. This process carried out individually from one tree to another by one person or more. The farmers added that the members of the previous regime ignored their farms due to the war so remained unfertilised.

Posted by: Sam / 12/21/2003 05:27:11 AM

In the following days we will update this analysis, which can be corroborated or refuted with photographic evidence of "yellow dates" at that particular site or in neighboring farms in mid-December.

Bear in mind that in December it gets pretty cold in Iraq, with temperatures dropping to close to the freezing point at night. http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/IZXX0008.html

If indeed the picture of the spider-hole was taken several months ago, this casts doubt on the official story."
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ATW312A.html

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[Code_Name_D]

3. Old topic.

Thoese are dates in the picture. And the ripening of dates is consistent with the administrations story.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Explain 'fruit NEVER grows there' ???

Which kind of fruit was shown in the picture?

All kinds? It's important to know more.

Can you try the linke again? This is interesting, subject to pinning down facts.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. This was discussed...

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=940757

and with some interesting links

[windansea]

6. scroll down a bit on this link

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_hammorabi_archive.html

[lotteandollie]

7. I'm glad we go rid of that a**hole.

I went to the link you provided. It makes you want to cry.