"We got him!"
Dec. 22nd, 2003 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbeWhat you mean we, white man? --Line from an old Lone Ranger joke.
Yeah, we got the sucker. Saddam. Maybe because our guys did the squeegeeman diagrams on him. And maybe the Kurds led us to where he had been put. But where did they get him? Maybe from a traditional Arab blood feud...
First item:
American forces took Saddam into custody around 8.30pm local time, but sat on the news until 3pm the next day.
However, in the early hours of Sunday, a Kurdish language wire service reported explicitly: "Saddam Hussein was captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A special intelligence unit led by Qusrat Rasul Ali, a high-ranking member of the PUK, found Saddam Hussein in the city of Tikrit, his birthplace.
"Qusrat's team was accompanied by a group of US soldiers. Further details of the capture will emerge during the day; but the global Kurdish party is about to begin!"
-- Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Herald Correspondent in Baghdad
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ratbastrd:
Saddam was betrayed to the Kurds by a member of the al-Jabour tribe whose daughter was "defiled" by Uday, the report quoting a senior British military intelligence officer said.
The tribe threatened to take revenge. As soon as he heard the news, Saddam visited the family of the dead man and paid them 7 million pounds in blood money with the chilling warning: "If you try to take revenge you will force me to wipe out the al-Jabour tribe."
-- Sify, a webportal for the Indian Diaspora with a focus on the Persian Gulf.
I will think twice before messing with the al-Jabours. Right about now it looks like they are the real Brooklyn Guidos, and the Husseins a bunch of Jersey wannabees.
Unless this story was made up by their PR people. Stranger things have happened.
Yeah, we got the sucker. Saddam. Maybe because our guys did the squeegeeman diagrams on him. And maybe the Kurds led us to where he had been put. But where did they get him? Maybe from a traditional Arab blood feud...
First item:
American forces took Saddam into custody around 8.30pm local time, but sat on the news until 3pm the next day.
However, in the early hours of Sunday, a Kurdish language wire service reported explicitly: "Saddam Hussein was captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A special intelligence unit led by Qusrat Rasul Ali, a high-ranking member of the PUK, found Saddam Hussein in the city of Tikrit, his birthplace.
"Qusrat's team was accompanied by a group of US soldiers. Further details of the capture will emerge during the day; but the global Kurdish party is about to begin!"
-- Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Herald Correspondent in Baghdad
Second item, courtesy of
ratbastrd:Saddam was betrayed to the Kurds by a member of the al-Jabour tribe whose daughter was "defiled" by Uday, the report quoting a senior British military intelligence officer said.
The tribe threatened to take revenge. As soon as he heard the news, Saddam visited the family of the dead man and paid them 7 million pounds in blood money with the chilling warning: "If you try to take revenge you will force me to wipe out the al-Jabour tribe."
-- Sify, a webportal for the Indian Diaspora with a focus on the Persian Gulf.
I will think twice before messing with the al-Jabours. Right about now it looks like they are the real Brooklyn Guidos, and the Husseins a bunch of Jersey wannabees.
Unless this story was made up by their PR people. Stranger things have happened.