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Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
United Press International ^ | 8/22/05

Posted on 08/22/2005 5:22:23 AM PDT by linkinpunk

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1 posted on 08/22/2005 5:22:24 AM PDT by linkinpunk
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To: linkinpunk
Wasn't this floated about 6 months ago?

Proved wrong then?

2 posted on 08/22/2005 5:23:56 AM PDT by dts32041 (Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that? Zatôichi: I don't see much)
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To: dts32041

This old news. Could this be a 'ZOT' alert?


3 posted on 08/22/2005 5:24:42 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: linkinpunk

As soon as I saw his name, I suspected he was lying.


4 posted on 08/22/2005 5:24:44 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: linkinpunk
LOL!

I like the spider-hole version a lot better!

5 posted on 08/22/2005 5:25:06 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: linkinpunk
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent

hmmmm ...

6 posted on 08/22/2005 5:26:05 AM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: linkinpunk

Abou ben bullship


7 posted on 08/22/2005 5:26:41 AM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: linkinpunk

Yeah this is a trash story, was already debunked earlier this year.


8 posted on 08/22/2005 5:26:48 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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To: DCPatriot

Actually I would prefer the "Saddam was shooting at the soldiers" version. If true, they likely would have offed him instead of merely arresting him.


9 posted on 08/22/2005 5:27:14 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: softwarecreator

And he was interviewed in Lebenon... hmmmmm


10 posted on 08/22/2005 5:28:27 AM PDT by linkinpunk
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To: linkinpunk

BS


11 posted on 08/22/2005 5:28:40 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: linkinpunk

He was a Marine???? A silk purse from a pigs ear they did not make. Marines misfired on this one.


12 posted on 08/22/2005 5:29:02 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: Leatherneck_MT

Yep I believe it was. Also, does it make any dfference, he was still caught. Hiding in a hole or a house they still got the weasel.


13 posted on 08/22/2005 5:29:26 AM PDT by JNL
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To: linkinpunk

Why would his version of this story be any better or worse than the known version? Makes no sense.


14 posted on 08/22/2005 5:29:32 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: DCPatriot

I like the version where is was working the drive up window of McCamels


15 posted on 08/22/2005 5:30:17 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: linkinpunk
the window of a room on the second floor.

There was no second story on the farmhouse where he was captured.

16 posted on 08/22/2005 5:30:19 AM PDT by angkor
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To: linkinpunk

UPI?

Helen Thomas's gig?

Now, will someone tell us what would be the advantage to fabricate a story of the capture? All the public ever cared about is that Saddam was captured. Nobody cared a whit if he was captured in a hole or if he was captured the way this guy claims. The blowback from fabricating a story would be much worse from any benefit of such a fabricated story.

I don't get it.


17 posted on 08/22/2005 5:32:25 AM PDT by txrangerette
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Why would his version of this story be any better or worse than the known version?

Because the Saudi Wahabbi press wants everyone to to believe that it was "the Arabs" who really captured him.

By extension, the "fabricated" story is yet another attempt to humiliate "the Arabs."

18 posted on 08/22/2005 5:32:33 AM PDT by angkor
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To: sure_fine
Didn't hear that one.

Then again, I am still very skeptical that man actually walked on the moon. ;^)

19 posted on 08/22/2005 5:33:07 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: linkinpunk
And he was interviewed in Lebenon... hmmmmm

And coincidently, Saddam is now claiming he is selling his soul for the cause.

Nah, I'm just being suspicious, there can't be any connection.

20 posted on 08/22/2005 5:33:40 AM PDT by softwarecreator
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