[Peace-discuss] the spider hole was a stage set!

[Lisa Chason]

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Public version of Saddam capture fiction

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Published March 9, 2005

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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.




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