In other news, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have claimed that they were the ones that captured, drugged and place Saddam in the hole for US discovery.
US Saddam claims being challenged
By Paul McGeough, Baghdad
THE AGE | December 22, 2003
Claims that US troops captured Saddam Hussein have been challenged by reports that he was discovered only after Kurdish forces had taken him prisoner.
The deposed president was drugged and abandoned ready for the American soldiers to recover him, a British tabloid newspaper reported yesterday.
Saddam came into the hands of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) after being betrayed 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, quoting an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
Washington's claims that brilliant US intelligence work led to the capture of Saddam are also being challenged by reports sourced in Iraq's Kurdish language media that say its militia set up the circumstances in which the US merely had to go to a farm identified by the Kurds to bag the fugitive former president...
Don't know how true this is, but I wouldn't be surprise. After all, Saddam was so well hidden that it will take a betrayal and some inside help to get him. And last Thursday, Saddam's daughter Raghad said in an interview with CNN that she believed her father was drugged.
By Paul McGeough, Baghdad
THE AGE | December 22, 2003
Claims that US troops captured Saddam Hussein have been challenged by reports that he was discovered only after Kurdish forces had taken him prisoner.
The deposed president was drugged and abandoned ready for the American soldiers to recover him, a British tabloid newspaper reported yesterday.
Saddam came into the hands of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) after being betrayed 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, quoting an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
Washington's claims that brilliant US intelligence work led to the capture of Saddam are also being challenged by reports sourced in Iraq's Kurdish language media that say its militia set up the circumstances in which the US merely had to go to a farm identified by the Kurds to bag the fugitive former president...
"Anyone with insight could tell from the first instance that my father was not fully conscious. As a daughter, I told them from the start, my father is drugged. I am 100 percent convinced."
If you're wondering why the Kurds set him up to be "discovered" by the Americans instead of handling him over and claiming the glory and financial reward, read the complete article in The Age.
By the way, don't you just like the acronym "PUK"? What if they had called themselves the "Patriotic Union of Kurdish Independents" instead? Then you will get "PUKI"!!
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