Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Yahoo News ^ | Sat Dec 20,11:00 PM ET | AFP

[Nachum]

LONDON, (AFP) - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British Sunday newspaper said.

Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.

The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq (news - web sites), "exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".

A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until he negotiated a deal.

The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.

An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express: "Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence. We knew that someone would eventually take their revenge, it was just a matter of time."

[HighWheeler]

Is there a RAT$h**-News category that this story can be added to on FR?

[hobson]

Already posted here.

[mrobison]

Yeah, he'd just be stains on thousands of pieces of toilet paper.

[Map Kernow]

Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.

Oh, bull! Yeah, and I'm sure they took the time to dig him a ventilated, camouflaged spider hole and to make the farmhouse he was found next to look "lived in," too.

All these left-wing, reflexively anti-American British journalists can go try to swallow a flaming plum pudding whole.

[mrobison]

Plus, they left him down there with 2 Kalishnakovs and a sidearm.

Yeah, right.

[blackbart.223]

"Yeah, he'd just be stains on thousands of pieces of toilet paper."

Saddam was always a sh#t stain.

[Joe Hadenuf]

AH, AH, AH, AHHBULLSHIT........

[Oztrich Boy]

Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, ... until he negotiated a deal. The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.

graamar rule. pronoun applies to the last person mentioned. In this case to the leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, negotiaging a deal with the US.

[deleuze03]

I dunno, I think the money and the political leverage they will get is reason enough to keep him alive. It is a politically tense time and any negotiating power would have been welcome.

[AeWingnut]

I'm thinking Deam supporters are believing this story with all their heart

[InvisibleChurch]

i can't believe the kurds left him in fewer than 842,001 pieces

[Map Kernow]

This "story" is sounding more and more like a little fairy tale designed to restore Arab "honor."

Not to mention @$$hole left-wing British media reporters' honor....

[Map Kernow]

I'm thinking Deam supporters are believing this story with all their heart

Absolutely right. It's a big discussion point over at DU.

[nmh]

The Kurds would have ripped him apart - literally. They're just trying to steal our thunder. This is crap.

[Old Professer]

Why is it that my eyes are blurred over by images of Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat???

[Old Professer]

Graamaticaaly speaaking, I think you're wrong, but who caares?

[Map Kernow]

I dunno, I think the money and the political leverage they will get is reason enough to keep him alive. It is a politically tense time and any negotiating power would have been welcome.

Wait a minute, I thought they captured him because of a blood feud over a rape? You mean their honor would be vindicated by some cash and influence?

But OK, I'll grant you your point. However, it makes no sense for them to keep him alive, and then leave him "drugged" in a spider hole with loaded weapons "for Americans" to pick him up. If this tribe had captured Saddam they would have handed him over without all the "abandonment" jazz---that dross is just pure tinfoil hat, Bush hating, anti-American stuff.

[mplsconservative]

"All these left-wing, reflexively anti-American British journalists can go try to swallow a flaming plum pudding whole."

LOL Now that's a good visual!

[76834]

I dont think so.......
If the Kurds had captured him they would have skinned him alive the boiled him in oil.
Then the bad part, he would have gotten 30 days in the electric chair.

[Beck_isright]

In a related story....

Kurdish rebels apparently also drugged President William Clinton and left him in an Oval Office hallway with a nymphomaniac intern on ectasy during the late 90's.

See how easy it is to write "news". Where do I apply?