Hussein Was Held by Kurds Before U.S. Capture, AFP Reports

[leQ]

Bloomberg

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. troops only after being held prisoner by Kurdish forces, who had had drugged and abandoned him, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a Sunday Express newspaper report.

The Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside U.S. forces during the Iraq war, held Hussien until it negotiated for more political advantage in the Middle East, AFP said, citing the paper, which quoted an unidentified Iraqi intelligence officer

isn't bloomberg generally recognized as a conservative outfit?

[kalian]

1. Don't know...but what I find strange is....

why is this story "breaking" exactly a WEEK after his capture...?
Who is tyring to make shrub and co. look like complete idiots?
Something is not right...

[JanMichael]

2. Wow. Any US comment on these stories that are starting to creep out?

If true then it appears that the only thing the Bushites can do is lie and mis-lead. Not that I ever expected anything different. Their excuse will be that they were in negotiations with the HKurdish faction that had Saddam and didn't want to mess that up. The reality is that they didn't want to give credit where credit was due.

Lie, lies, tell me sweet little lies...

[aquart]

8. The first story BushCo tells is always a lie.

Also the second. And the third. By then you have no idea what anybody's talking about anyway.

None of the Saddam capture stories make sense. If the Kurds had him, how could we have those unripe date photos of our boys at the capture place probably months ago?

I need a comprehensible timeline here, and I just don't see it.

[CatWoman]

3. dupe

it's right here on the front page, with a kazillion responses.

[leQ]

5. i just saw it

why a search for kurds on the page didn't produce it i have no idea. sorry. i actually was somewhat amazed that it appeared not to have been.

[VolcanoJen]

4. Hmmm.... that's pretty interesting.

So, if this is true, how long did we know he was there? Did the Kurds provide us the "intelligence," holding him until we got there, as instructed, or something?

Agence France-Presse has a scoop, it seems...

[maggrwaggr]

6. sad. it's already dropped off the Yahoo highest-rated stories

we'll probably never hear from it again.

Why do I even bother to look at the news any more?

[many a good man]

9. Let's try and kick it up

Here's the yahoo link: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1514&u=/afp/iraq_saddam_britain&printer=1

:kick:

[madfloridian]

7. It's at Drudge Report.

:hi:

[supernova]

10. So they just left him there

oh so conveniently for us to "find." Right.

I wonder how the WH is going to spin this to say, "yeah, but we really did save the day, despite being handed Saddam on a silver platter." :eyes:

[Robbien]

11. It is just another ploy to keep Saddam front page news

The number of stories were dropping and we cannot have that.

[Gin]

13. and now to keep this story quiet....we go to level orange.....should be

level brown for bull shit.

[montana_hazeleyes]

15. I love that.

Anyone mentions the "terror level" I'm gonna say "brown for bull shit".

[gmoney]

12. explains why he didn't fight back...

and explains why just as this story breaks, Ridge raises the alert level...

And this is BURIED on Yahoo news. (Sad that Yahoo is so many people's primary news source -- it's one of mine, I hate to admit.)

[KeepItReal]

14. The Kurds said they had him on Dec 14th....

"Iraqi Kurd Group Says Saddam Hussein Arrested
Sun Dec 14, 5:13 AM ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Tehran office of an Iraqi Kurd group said on Sunday that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had been arrested in Iraq (news - web sites).

"I confirm that Saddam has been arrested," Nazem Dabag, representative in Iran of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, told Reuters. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031214/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_arrest_dc_1

[imax2268]

16. Here's another link to it...

Why is it that the American media isn't picking up on this...is it because they accept the White House's version and that's it...

I admit that I was skeptical at first...but now I'm starting to wonder...


Click here

[windansea]

17. inside red dawn

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3770218/