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Iraqi newspaper publishes photos of Saddam behind bars
AFP ^
| December 18, 2003
Posted on 12/18/2003 11:45:49 AM PST by Shermy
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A giant photo of fallen dictator Saddam Hussein getting a jail visit from his nemesis Ahmed Chalabi graced the front page of a Baghdad newspaper.
A pale and thinner Saddam, dressed in a grey sports jacket and white robes, is sitting on a bed in his crumbling cell, next to his adversary, the longtime Iraqi opposition leader Chalabi, who returned to Baghdad after Saddam was pushed from power last April.
The photo was blown up across the front page of Al-Mutamar, the paper of Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC).
"Today's paper sold out in record time. I haven't even been able to get a copy myself," said INC spokesman Intifadh Qanbar.
The photo was taken Sunday when a delegation from Iraq's interim Governing Council, including Chalabi, were brought by the Americans to identify Saddam.
The US military and its civil administration have not said where they are holding Saddam.
He was captured at an isolated farmhouse late Saturday in Ad-Dawr, just outside the fallen dictator's hometown of Tikrit, 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of the capital.
Chalabi, whose family fled Iraq after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958, has called for Saddam to be sentenced to death.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chalabi; iraq; iraqaftermath; iraqipress; prisonersaddam; saddamcaptured; saddamincustody; saddamtoppled
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:45:52 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
is he sittin' on the crapper? Give the man some freakin' decency!!!! Scratch that...give him a bullet in the head.
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:47:29 AM PST
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27th Infantry...Nec Aspera Terrent!!!)
To: Shermy
What the heck is in front of Saddam's legs? Is it a Depends in case he craps himself?
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:47:33 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
To: Shermy
Stop humiliating Saddam...
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:47:55 AM PST
by
danneskjold
(John Kerry f***ed up my tagline)
To: Shermy
It kinda brings me back to the day I rescued my puppy from the shelter.
Sorry...it makes me all teary-eyed...
To: ElectricStrawberry
It's a robe.
It does look like that the "cell" is a former rest room at the Baghdad Airport.
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:49:59 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
Notice how slumped Saddam's posture is... Shows he is defeated in the most worst way and obedient to Chalabi.
Probably helps that outside of view, is most likely a M-16 pointed at Saddam.
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:50:17 AM PST
by
smith288
("We're going to have the happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny F'n Kay")
To: danneskjold
lol!
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:50:59 AM PST
by
stlnative
To: Shermy
After being forced to relieve himself in a hole in a garden, and hiding out in a septic tank, a bathroom at the airport seems pertinent.
To: smith288
Now you know it means Saddam was drugged by the Americans. /sarcasm
10
posted on
12/18/2003 11:51:44 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Shermy
The photo was blown up...Was it a car bomb or suicide bomber?
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:51:58 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: weegee; Sabertooth; Registered; Paul Atreides; Diogenesis
Where's Bert? Where's Tourist Guy?
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:53:16 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
where are the bars? Look more like behind urinals to me.
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:54:42 AM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: Shermy
Your posting his picture??? Oh the humanity! Have you no regard for this mass murdering, totalitarian dictator's dignity?
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:55:39 AM PST
by
pgkdan
To: Shermy
"Saddam, you gotta point it down when you pee like a girl!
"you mean like this?"
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posted on
12/18/2003 11:56:51 AM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: Shermy
Calling Martha Stewart!
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posted on
12/18/2003 12:01:35 PM PST
by
bruin66
(Guns don't kill people. Bullets do. Guns just make them go really fast.)
To: danneskjold
>Stop humiliating Saddam...
Sad to say, the soft woman in me agrees. But I'm sure if I had been treated as his people had been treated, it would be very healing to me to see this "unbeatable" man, defeated.
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posted on
12/18/2003 12:04:40 PM PST
by
sunryse
To: dirtboy
I believe it's a dishdasha (called thobes in some parts of the Arab world) the traditional full-length robe.
Though the sportcoat/dishdasha combo seems a bit strange.
To: dirtboy
It's an apron!
They've got him bussing tables at a Hooters in New Jersey!
We ate there yesterday!
To: CJ Wolf
Saddam: I bet you $10 I can tell you where you got those shoes.
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posted on
12/18/2003 12:21:55 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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