Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Yahoo! News ^ | 12/20/03

[woofie]

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 (news - web sites), "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."

[woofie]

I guess thats why he had a gun on him

[woofie]

DU is lapping up this garbage

[Ruth A.]

I wonder if there would have been enough DNA left to identify him, had the Kurds gotten to Saddahm first.

[thoughtomator]

Oh please. Any Kurd who found him would be wearing his testicles on a keychain and carrying his head on a pike.

[PianoMan]

Someone wants to be the next Robert fisk, evidently.

[Az Joe]

Just when did Britain sink into a cesspool of Leftist sh*t?

[Lancey Howard]

This is the second similar conspiracy theory about this.
"Captors" would not leave Saddam with $750,000 US cash and a sidearm. Period.

[river rat]

I'm getting pretty suspicious of Yahoo news...
They seem to lean so far left, that they get poo poo on one leg...

Semper Fi

[FairOpinion]

None of this diminishes the fact that the US soldiers discovered him and Saddam IS now in captivity.

[Liberal Classic]

I guess thats why he had a gun on him

And three quarters of a million in $US.

[IronJack]

This sounds like bilgewater smells.

[humblegunner]

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.

Breaking news, monkeys to fly out of my butt, film at eleven.

[Cultural Jihad]

DEBKA in Russia tried to peddle this line earlier this week.

When I look at the Express website, one of their "news stories" is:

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Sagittarians 'are top speeders'

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[Luke21]

I'm suspicious of all of them. They lie and spew so fast it's hard to keep up with them. What was the crap CBS was reporting last week blaming Bush for 9-11,using Tom Kean as a fop? It's really ridiculous.

Does the left know how stupid they look? Think Yahoo, think toilet.

[elhombrelibre]

Yahoo mostly has stories from Reuters and AFP, which explains a lot.

[Slings and Arrows]

This is so dubious that even the guys at DEBKA are saying "Schmucks!"

[ValerieUSA]

What kind of monkeys?

[McGavin999]

If the Kurds had captured him he would have been found in thousands of little 1" pieces.

[Reagan Man]

>>>Just when did Britain sink into a cesspool of Leftist sh*t?

If you're really serious, it started right after WWII. Socialized medicine, welfare payments and liberalized drug laws. American liberals of the 1960`s saw the political capital that could be gained from British social policy and applied it to the good old USA. LBJ created "The Great Society" and the era of BIG GOVERNMENT has been with us ever since.