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Saddam's Nephew Escapes Prison in Iraq
AP/Newsday ^ | 12-9-06

Posted on 12/09/2006 10:29:30 AM PST by STARWISE

nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for making bombs for Iraq's insurgency escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq, authorities said.

Ayman Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, fled the prison some 45 miles west of Mosul in the afternoon with the help of a police officer, according to local police Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri.

Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf confirmed the escape but declined to elaborate.

Sabawi was convicted of illegally crossing the border from Syria and sentenced to 15 years in prison late last year by an Iraqi court. He was sentenced to life in prison in an earlier case for possession of illegal weapons and manufacture of explosive devices.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bustedout; complicity; nephew; prisonbreak; saddam; thug; treason
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Wonder if AP was waiting with a car and cash.
1 posted on 12/09/2006 10:29:32 AM PST by STARWISE
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To: onyx; Txsleuth; Mo1; Peach; ohioWfan; Lancey Howard; rodguy911; Enchante; Grampa Dave; ...

I'm baaad ... PING!


2 posted on 12/09/2006 10:30:41 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
The odds on Saddam's escape, and his replay of the cent jours, just keep going up.

I make it about 30-70 now.

3 posted on 12/09/2006 10:32:10 AM PST by Jim Noble (Chairman, FR Rudy for President 2008 Caucus)
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To: STARWISE; All

Maybe it was george Soros waiting for Saddam nephew or Baghdad Bob LOL!

HEY Star how many rugrats are in Saddam kinfolks DAMN this guy has more relatives than Stefano Dimeria from Days of our lives LOL!


4 posted on 12/09/2006 10:32:46 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: STARWISE
HELL'S DONKEYS!

If there was ever a line that should END, CEASE TO BE, BECOME EXTINCT, it is the house of Saddam.

5 posted on 12/09/2006 10:36:28 AM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: Jim Noble

What does Vegas say?


6 posted on 12/09/2006 10:42:46 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: STARWISE

Was the policy of jailing bomb makers, instead of summarily executing them, researched by the Iraq Study Group?


7 posted on 12/09/2006 10:58:52 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Conservative and Republican are not synonymous.)
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To: STARWISE
...fled the prison some 45 miles west of Mosul in the afternoon with the help of a police officer...

Yet another reason not to take prisoners over there, but if you insist on doing it, at least don't hire natives as guards! During WWII, did we run any POW facilities IN GERMANY staffed BY KRAUTS? It would've been insane.

8 posted on 12/09/2006 11:05:48 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: johnny7

Are you talking Mafia odds and end or what Mafia would like to do to Saddam


9 posted on 12/09/2006 11:11:56 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: STARWISE
Everyone seems to assume that after the "escape," he is still alive. He just might be buried in a shallow grave somewhere out in the shifting sands of the desert.

Mosul, is after all, the homeland of Kurds - who, last I heard, were not exactly in love with Batthists or Saddam's ilk.
10 posted on 12/09/2006 11:16:44 AM PST by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: STARWISE

Betcha he has RFID/tracking device on his person. Look for more high value terrorists to be picked up soon.


11 posted on 12/09/2006 11:23:48 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: SevenofNine
how many rugrats are in Saddam kinfolks

All Arab moslems and all Persian moslems trace their ancestry back to M. If a person can't trace his ancestry back to M he hasn't a chance of ever amounting to anything in moslemhood. That would include all the moslems in Turkey, Indonesia, Philippines, and Black moslems in the USA who will never amount to anything in islam and might as well forget it for their children as well unless they can find a nice Arab moslem woman to marry.

12 posted on 12/09/2006 11:24:14 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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It helps a LOT to have a police officer leading the way.

Hope this guy, in being caught, leads the GOOD Iraqis / US and coalition forces to a nest of like-minded bad guys.


13 posted on 12/09/2006 11:38:06 AM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: SevenofNine
Are you talking Mafia odds and end or what Mafia would like to do to Saddam

Which ever gets him room-temperature quicker...

14 posted on 12/09/2006 11:57:38 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: johnny7

Well in Casino it better without witnesses LOL!


15 posted on 12/09/2006 12:08:47 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: STARWISE

They better execute Saddam Quick!He may be back running Iraq again.


16 posted on 12/09/2006 12:09:18 PM PST by ustanker (The cave dwellers are happy!)
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To: RightWhale

So Nation of Islam is poor relation of Muslum right I see LOL!


17 posted on 12/09/2006 12:09:49 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: ustanker
They better execute Saddam Quick!He may be back running Iraq again.

That is his plan and has been since his capture. He still thinks he runs the place. The longer he is in the picture, the more likely someone will spring him which will fire up the sunnis.

18 posted on 12/09/2006 12:25:46 PM PST by pfflier
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To: pfflier

We need to become real serious on this war.

Stop with the absurd ROP delusion.

Did we tollerate or accept Nazi parades during WWII?

Did we allow Axis for Peace groups in the USA?

The public must accept the fact that unless THEY PERSONALLY want to die, the enemy is going to have to die.


19 posted on 12/09/2006 12:34:21 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: STARWISE

And why was that nephew in prison, and alive, in the first place? I do not remember ever hearing of the dead ones escaping.


20 posted on 12/09/2006 1:19:07 PM PST by GSlob
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