Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Was Fiction

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.
I guess this version would be a little more inspiring to the insurgents...shockingly, the trumped up version gives bush better PR. too bad that one was made up. (thanks to span for the Link).

1 comment:

Polly said...

i was told earlier that this site was having comment posting problems...which i think i fixed...and that the post that WOULD have gone her e says this story has been de-bunked. ok, send me some links. i'm a bit skeptical of the de-bunking that i heard stating there were NO Marines there at the time (which i know is manifestly untrue).

i'm not calling anyone a liar, i'm just saying point me the way!