A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President SaddamI 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).
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.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Was Fiction
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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!
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