Posted on 02/28/2005 1:34:29 PM PST by quidnunc
A curious thing has been happening amidst critics’ complaints that the United States is not focusing sufficiently on an exit strategy in Iraq, and that the Iraqis themselves can’t deal with the terrorists attacking them: the bad guys are getting caught. One of the most notable recent achievements was the capture of Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and former adviser Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti.
With details about Ibrahim’s apprehension still scarce as I write on Sunday, it is difficult to know exactly who should get the credit for nabbing the former Baath Party official who came in at number 36 on the American military’s 55 “most wanted in Iraq” list.
On the other hand, the specifics hardly matter. Regardless of whether it was the U.S. military or the Iraqi interim government or Iraqi police forces (or some combination of the above) who did it, removing Ibrahim from the scene marks an incredible degree of progress.
One of the few people on the most wanted list who was still at large, it is widely believed that Ibrahim had been hunkered down in Syria where he was orchestrating many of the terrorist attacks against Americans in Iraq.
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Isn't it great how we let God kill him?
hmmmmm.............
No. Slobadan's in the hand of the Euros in Brussels. They'll take forever to try him and they'll never use the death penalty. Saddam, on the other hand, is the hand of the US and the Iraqis. He'll go on trial fairly soon (they've decided to keep him in a cage during his trial) and he will end up hanging at the end of a rope.
How do you figure?
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