"High Value Target Number One" held a pistol at time of arrest (great Army Times report)

Army Times ^ | 12/15/03 | Alexandar Vasovic

[Wolfstar]

ADWAR, Iraq

[Wolfstar]

This Army Times article gives us insights into the capture that the more general media may not.

[Wolfstar]

More from Army Times:

“My name is Saddam Hussein,” the fallen Iraqi leader told U.S. troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole Saturday night where he hid in the village of Adwar, north of Baghdad. “I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate.”

A U.S. Special Forces soldier replied: “Regards from President Bush,” according to Maj. Bryan Reed, operations officer for the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.

[skeeter]

I guess 'going out in a blaze of glory' is a western concept.

[woofer]

I guess 'going out in a blaze of glory' is a western concept.

Yeah, must be.

The Arab < slash > Mideast equivalent is to exhort all others to do what you, the self proclaim "Lion of Bahgdad" and "Leader of all Arabs", are definitely not willing to do.

[snarkpup]

To borrow a phrase from Lee Van Cleef: "When a man with a pistol meets a man with a hand grenade, the man with the pistol dies."

[Plutarch]

Beneath the cloth was a piece of plastic foam...

Saddam was arrested clutching a loaded pistol he didn’t fire.

This can't be. DEBKA reports that Saddam was a prisoner. I don't see how you keep a prisoner captive with a foam roof and a loaded pistol.