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Saddam Accepted the American Ultimatum Before the US Invasion, According to Rights and Freedom International
What a bunch of pure BS. I was going to buy my wife a 2 carat diamond solitare, but; the bank and all my credit card companies shut down for five hours. It is always they were going to do something. What happened to the saying-"A man who wants to do something finds a way-A man who does not finds and excuse."
Which Democrat came up with this idea?
BS
to spin nov 7th
Dumbie shouldn't have waited until the deadline to give the response. What an (censored)!
Sounds like a load of crap. If true, why all the rigamarole? Just announce it. It's not like there was no Bagdad Bob.
BS....Remember folks..SADDAM KICKED CNN OUT OF IRAQ A WEEK BEFORE THE ENVASION!! The guy is lying!!
They can't pull the same crap as they did with the "Japan was ready to surrender 2 seconds before Hiroshima."
Saddam could have gone on any TV station instantaneously.
WHAT KIND OF OCTOBER SURPRISE CRAP IS THIS?!
Yahoo is doing DNC dirty work again?
What a lie.
Just another instance of many stalling efforts by Saddam Hussein.
Hossam Shaltout (Image via Summer's Daydreams) LAVoice.org is not LAVoice.com, and never the twain shall meet - without a lease - says Hossam Shaltout.
As our own Perry Crowe pointed out Monday, LAVoice.com resolves to a static page for an Arabic newspaper, Allahab.com. As I pointed out in comments, that domain has belonged to Shaltout since at least 2002, when I first started building this site.
And as Marc Salvatierra pointed out in a later comment, Shaltout might be the same Egyptian-born Canadian citizen who was captured in Iraq by U.S. soldiers, accused of being a speechwriter for Saddam Hussein and then allegedly tortured by U.S. special forces.
Well, he is that man ...
I wrote to the tech-contact email address for LAVoice.com yesterday, and Shaltout e-mailed back confirming his identity.
He also said (quite courteously) that he would only lease the LAVoice.com name to me since he doesn't plan to sell it.
Ah, well. As I said the other day, people don't seem to have any trouble finding us at the dot-org address.
Meanwhile, Googling "Hossam Shaltout" turns up some pretty interesting background on him. I'd be curious to know what LAVoice.org users make of it all:
- His arrest in April, 2003 by U.S. forces. haltout had gone to Iraq before the war on behalf of a group called Rights and Freedom International, hoping to persuade Iraqi leaders to step down but instead he was arrested and taken to Camp Bucca. - His release from detention in April, 2004
- His charges of torture against the U.S. government: Shaltout says he was arrested by US soldiers outside his hotel in Baghdad during a riot in April 2003, and taken to the Bucca detention facility in Umm Qasr, southern Iraq. He had travelled to Iraq on behalf of his peace group "Rights and Freedom International" in a bid to convince Iraqi leaders to step down to avoid a war with the United States.
After he was taken to Bucca in an armoured personnel carrier, Shaltout claims he was subjected to a daily diet of interrogation and torture.
Right-hand man
"Mr Shaltout was accused of being both a speechwriter for Saddam Hussein as well as his 'right-hand man,'" said Shaltout's Portland, Oregon-based lawyer Thomas Nelson in the complaint lodged with the US Army last week.
"When Mr Shaltout refused to confess, he was beaten in a variety of ways - he was hit with open hands, fists, shoes, and gun butts.
"The most alarming form of torture was when the interrogators put gun muzzles at his head or body, which put Mr. Shaltout in great fear of imminent death."
Shaltout, who is in Saudi Arabia and could not be immediately contacted Wednesday claims that he was kneed in the groin and hit about the face while in leg irons and handcuffs after he launched a hunger strike.
He is claiming $350 000 in damages, claiming he now suffers depression, post traumatic stress disorder and other physical and mental ailments. - And his announcement last July that he is campaigning to become president of Egypt. Hossam Shaltout, an Egyptian peace activist and president of Rights and Freedom International, He announced that he will be running for President of Egypt in the upcoming election. ââ¬ÅI think that the time has come for reform in Egypt, and I know that I'm the person to accomplish it, " he said at a press conference ..
Shaltout, a successful businessman, is a 58-year old graduate from Cairo University's Aerospace engineering school. His extensive international experience positions him well to guide Egypt in the future. Shaltout has lived in Canada and the United States, and thus understands Western culture thoroughly. He risked both his financial and his personal health in attempting to prevent America from attacking Iraq in 2003; indeed, as a result he was mistakenly arrested, detained, and tortured by American forces in Iraq.
Shaltout has an aggressive agenda that would pull Egypt out of its economic and political slump. Among his campaign
Shaltout stated that Egypt is in crisis and that new leadership is needed. "It's time for us all to work for a better future for ourselves and, more important, for our children. My presidency will result in that better future," he said during his news conference
Thoughts, anyone?
http://lavoice.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1528
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Just another lying muzzie scum.
I was going to try and pass that along to the President, but I had too much of a hangover the next day and couldn't get out of bed. I think the CIA spiked my Jack Daniels to prevent the offer from being delivered. I think I'll write a book on this.
We can believe him, but not the Iraqi general who said that the WMD were moved to Syria.
A press release, written by the subject of the story itself? Ridiculous. This is not news...
Although Yahoo should make it easier for gullible people to identify the source... so many people will see this and think "it's on yahoo news - it must be true". It they are going to publish this crap at all, it should have a big disclaimer on the top explaining that it's NOT journalism.
This is complete BS. I just watched "Inside Saddam's Reign of Terror." This documentary SHOWS what Saddam did during the 48 hours President Bush gave to Saddam and his sons to leave the country. It is amazing how enemies within this country can have such short memories of ACTUAL events.