"I Punched Saddam in the Mouth"

River Front Times ^ | April 13, 2005 | CHAD GARRISON

[West Coast Conservative]

In a south-city Saint Louis Bread Co., a young auto mechanic named Samir puts down his coffee long enough to carefully eye the other patrons. Assured no one is paying him any mind, he lowers his voice to a guttural whisper, fidgets with the zipper on his black tracksuit and rubs his grease-stained fingers along a finely manicured goatee. Then, in a syncopated rhythm of street slang and accented English, he transports himself back in time to a bitter-cold December night in Iraq.

It had to have been the most sublime moment of his life. Samir tells how he arrived in Tikrit as an Arabic interpreter for United States Special Forces in late 2003, how he peered into a hidden bunker and heard a voice begging for mercy, how he reached into the darkness and pulled out Saddam Hussein.

"I was so angry," says Samir, who immigrated to St. Louis eleven years ago after fleeing Iraq. "I began cussing at him, calling him a motherfucker, a son-of-a-bitch -- you name it. I told him I was Shiite from the south and was part of the revolution against him in 1991. I said he murdered my uncles and cousins. He imprisoned my father.

"All these years of anger, I couldn't stop. I tried to say the worst things I could. I told him if he were a real man he would have killed himself. I asked him: 'Why are you living in that dirty little hole, you bastard? You are a rat. Your father is a rat.'"

In Arabic, Saddam told Samir to shut up. And when Saddam called him a traitor, an enraged Samir silenced his prisoner with a flurry of quick jabs to the face.

"I punched Saddam in the mouth."

[Fitzcarraldo]

Up close and personal.

[LibWhacker]

. . . a flurry of quick jabs to the face.

Jabs? No power punches? Good for him, but I'm disappointed Samir didn't really rock his world.

[Cultural Jihad]

And when Saddam called him a traitor, an enraged Samir silenced his prisoner with a flurry of quick jabs to the face.

BTTT!

[JennysCool]

Just wow!

[AVNevis]

Sadly, Samir will probably be charged with mistreating a prisoner.

[RWR8189]

It says he was an independent contractor, I don't know who would charge him.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Awesome story. Just another example of what a great place America is.
May this guy and his family remain safe. Hopefully this story doesn't give to much info that terrorists could use (or MoveOn.org types).

[AVNevis]

"It says he was an independent contractor, I don't know who would charge him."

Don't worry, the ACLU will find someone.

[Stellar Dendrite]

I've already put a call into the ACLU.

[kayak]

bttt

[ryan71]

Sounds like the military team he was with let him loose.

Maybe they knew he could get away with slapping Saddam around, but they couldn't.

[Lancey Howard]

Cool story.
I wonder if it's true?

[Deetes]

"I punched Saddam in the mouth." PING !!! :-)

[old-ager]

The RFT is a foul POS, but this is a good story.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping Deetes.

[Tailback]

That picture pretty much says it all doesn't it? LOL!

[The Fop]

Do you have another pic like that one where the caption reads "Bush Wins"? Do you sell them already framed?

[Xenalyte]

I told 'em they shouldn't have fired Samir. Those programmers are NUTS.