MORE DETAILS EMERGE ON SADDAM CAPTURE: COALITION ELABORATE EAVESDROPPING AND SADDAM'S BIG MOUTH

Nikkan Gendai (Tokyo) translated to English by Freeper ^ | 15 December 2003 | Nikkan Gendai (translated to English by Freeper)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here is my quick synopsis/Japanese-to-English translation (a “Freepranslation”) of the report today from the Japanese news website, ZakZak, attached to the Nikkan Gendai publication in Tokyo.

Title: "Saddam, Digs His Grave By Talking With Wife, Starts to Give Information"

"--The U.S. was greatly assisted by a sophisticated “elint” (electronic eavesdropping) operation involving good cooperation by US, Australian, and British intelligence. The cooperative group was code named “Dream Team”. Of course, former officials of the regime who 'were turned' against Saddam were also instrumental and completed the picture just before the raid.

--The Dream Team went ahead on the theory that Saddam would make every effort to keep in touch with his wife #2 in Beirut, Lebanon. This woman is Samira Shabandar. They centered their coordinated and high level intelligence collection and eavesdropping efforts on her.

--The Dream Team captured important telephone conversations between Samira and Saddam held by satellite telecom, via Inmarsat. Saddam was code-named by them as: “Number One”. The Dream Team had not only this success, but also in using similar methodologies to track down Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay and later slaying them.

--Saddam was known to the Coalition as a “ladies man” (in Japanese here, an "enpukuya"). The chap not only was married to wife #1, Zahjida Hairara, but he also stole #2 from a former Ba'ath regime associate, he has a mysterious #3 wife, and finally, he married a German woman, #4 Wife, Iman Fuwaishu (spelling) just last year. Of course, on top of that, he had the closest relationship to #2, but still played the field with five additional mistresses, jacked up on Viagra, having fun every night here and there until the war.

--#2 Wife had already foolishly revealed to the press in Lebanon earlier that Saddam, while on the run, talked to her once a week by phone and would send over letters with details that could not be discussed on the telephone.

--#2 wife claimed that “no way will he ever be captured by the Americans”, but the Dream Team was busy at work with other, conflicting plans in mind for Saddam.

--Dream Team was making Samira “swim”, all the while passing the info off to it's elite, multiforce “Task Force 121”. Based on additional information from captured associates in Baghdad, they lined up details with the telephone conversations, they were able to cross the information and they then finally put the "x" on the map at al-Dawar, near his familiar Tikrit.

--Saddam was asked by Iraqi leaders, current US allies who questioned him in captivity, “just how do you intend to meet Allah (after what he had done to people”. Saddam’s response to them, “I will go to him with a quiet heart.”

--As the four Iraqi officials left the cell, Saddam spat at them “You ________ will be sent to Hell by my Iraqi people!” But once he started 'singing' about the underground fighters, the US got even more information on anti-US resistance elements in Iraq and detained them, too.

--Saddam was described as ‘Saddam the sellout” by US military officers, after he started “singing”."

(END OF "FREEPRANSLATION")

[aristeides]

Anything we are told could of course be disinformation, especially if there are human sources to protect, but also to try to provoke certain reactions in our enemies.

[ASA Vet]

Actually both Comint and Elint could be collected on a cell phone.

[Diamond]

Of course, on top of that, he had the closest relationship to #2, but still played the field with five additional mistresses, jacked up on Viagra, having fun every night here and there until the war.

Will Saddam qualify for the new Medicare prescription plan for those Viagra tablets?

Cordially,

[ZOTnot]

Great post!!!

Thank you SO much for the translation!

[Born Conservative]

bump for later reading...

[mikegi]

That ain't no "Echelon", that be Spaceball City.

[trussell]

The spider hole is rumored to be only big enough for him to have crouched into.

[HIDEK6]

Saddam was code-named by them as: “Number One”.

Those tricky Iraquis!

[longtermmemmory]

even if he was not singing like a bird, could any of his associates take the risk?

Where do out of work bathists run to?

[longtermmemmory]

same thing in europe. The anti-american moore sells well because he makes the french look good.

[StormEye]

"Maybe he'll leak about Al-Quida and where Osama is, maybe on WMDs, or, most fun of all,
he could tell of the fun times he had with the Democratic Congressman and Senators
(like McDermot) who heaped praise on him. LOL!"

You've made a good point here. Be on the look out for resignations from Congress for
"family reasons." Or some of them will refuse to stand for re-election for "family reasons."
It can't happen soon enough for me.

[Quix]

MUCH THANKS.

YOU CONSISTENTLY, IMHO, DO GREAT WORK.

THE BEST TO YOU THIS SEASON.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for a great report, AIT.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

SADDAM'S BIG MOUTH

The rats were bugged!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks much for your kind, appreciative post and the thanks from a number of others before yours, and a big LOL re: the post just following yours!