New details of Saddam capture

CNN ^ | 08/05/04 | N/A

[TigerLikesRooster]

New details of Saddam capture

Pulled from spider hole, Saddam asks: "America, why?"
Thursday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 1:46 AM EDT (0546 GMT)

Saddam Hussein after his capture

(CNN) -- After an extensive search of an Iraqi farm on December last year, U.S. Special Forces and a translator named Samir brushed aside leaves and dirt from one area of the farm, uncovering the spider hole where Saddam Hussein was hiding.

"I grabbed him," Samir told CNN in a recent interview. "I was like I am not going to let him go."

"I told him that if you're a real man, you should have killed yourself," he added.

At one point, Samir said the former dictator called him a traitor and a spy -- words that resulted in the once-ruthless dictator getting punched in the face.

"He made me really upset and I had to punch him. I was so angry," he said, adding that the Special Forces made him stop after a couple of blows.

Samir spoke to Ron Young, a special contributor to CNN, on condition that only his first name be used due to security concerns.

Samir said he knew immediately that it was Saddam in his grasp, even though the former Iraqi leader looked ragged.

"I told them, 'This is Saddam.' They didn't believe me at first. They said, 'Ask him his name.' I said, 'This is Saddam.' They said, 'No, ask him,'" Samir recalls with a laugh.

[Jeff Chandler]

"He made me really upset and I had to punch him. I was so angry," he said, adding that the Special Forces made him stop after a couple of blows.

Well, they couldn't very well deny him his emotional release, could they?

[Carling]

Thank God they didn't put panties on his head!

[Texasforever]

This guy should have a prime time slot at the convention.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank g-d they didn't put panties on his head!

We'd still be seeing the photos in the MSM!

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

For Americans who say the war was not worth it, Samir has this message, "I want to tell them what they do in Iraq is the right thing, because they save a life, they are changing the Iraq."

I really wish the Bush campaign would use people like this and quotes like this in their campaign ads. How many times do we see the same ads over and over and over again with generic file footage of American factories and countrysides and smiling children? Bush should get specific and bombard Kerry with 20 different ads about 20 different accomplishments from the Bush Administration. Nobody's going to vote for Bush because they saw the same tired advertisement repeated 16 times instead of 15 times.

[McGavin999]

This guy is going to be a national hero someday.

[Skybird]

Too bad there wasn't an oak tree with a lower branch and they could have held a "rope dance" right on the spot . . .

[sonofatpatcher2]

Now it can be told:

Okay, okay! I confess...

I found him.

[rolling_stone]

I'll never forget seeing a curbside lineup where a rape suspect was brought to the victim's husband (Who was held at knifepoint while the rape took place in his presence) the husband was asked if the suspect was the right person and he promptly hit him as hard as he could in the face a couple of times before he was restrained ..talk about a positive id...

[smonk]

CNN will be screeching about prisoner abuse by morning.

[Jet Jaguar]

[tjg]

Photo's hell. If they had put panties on his head the public outcry and liberal sympathy would have given him the Democratic nomination for president.