Gen. W Leads Charge up Breeds Hill and other Mys(h)istories...

[Felix Mala]

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

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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.

"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed," he said.

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."

"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.


FOLKS: Remember December 2003... The Bushies so desperately needed something to go right in Iraq. Why not a dramatic "found the creep under a rock" scenario?

[DemoTex]

1. US Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch redux.

What is seems and what seems is in Bu$hco's Hall of Mirrors.