Neighbors say owner of home gave up Hussein's sons - owner 'blamed' for tipping off coalition forces

Associated Press ^ | July 24, 2003

[MeekOneGOP]

Traitor, blamed ? I suspect AP bias. Or maybe not ?

[johniegrad]

he's already become an outcast in his neighborhood

It's OK. He can afford to move.

[Dog]

I say bring the guy here....hell we can throw him a parade for ridding the world of thees two scumbags.

[autoresponder]

30,000,000 ways to lose your neighbors

This will spread and others will join the club

Bounty hunters for big bucks

3 of the 1001st killed today

But the Baathists are finding no place to hide

15,00,000 a pop converts one to capitalism quickly

[xzins]

his wife and their four daughters left the house at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and never returned.

I guess since AP has bought into this culture for the moment, but, being culturally sensitive as they are, they overlook the possibility that it's the GIRLS who tipped off the Americans.

4 Daughters -- weren't little girls Uday's favorite targets of rape and abuse? Has it occurred to the AP that this might be the girls getting a little revenge on that monster? Are we to believe that Uday gave up his "divine right to secure bed partners for himself" just because he became a fugitive?

I can see this mom hating the very sight of him in her house with her vulnerable daughters slated as his after-dinner delicasies.

[battlegearboat]

He is now known as Sheik Spongebob Squarepants, of Palm Springs, Kalif.

[ChipShot]

This reporting is a little different than how it was done in this story.

"How man jailed by a tyrant repaid him - by leading US troops to his sons and earning a $30m bounty"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951554/posts

Sorry, I am HTML disabled, but this thread from last night does not have quite the same slant as this one.

[grumple]

Correction: Rich Traitor

[SauronOfMordor]

I guess since AP has bought into this culture for the moment, but, being culturally sensitive as they are, they overlook the possibility that it's the GIRLS who tipped off the Americans.

Interesting theory. I think it's the wife, as she would be the one who would be able to gather up herself and daughters and get them out with no questions or fuss.

In an Islamic culture, even a fairly liberalized one like Iraq, the woman has few rights. It would be extremely tempting for the wife to be able to leave her husband, and get set up in a witness protection program in the US with a $30M nest egg

For Uday and Qusay to be there, they must have trusted the husband, but being Muslims it would not have occurred to them to think about whether the wife or daughters had a motive to inform on them

[xzins]

Daughters of Iraq.....rise up and throw off your chains!

See how one mother repaid the monsters, Uday and Qusay!

It'd make great copy in the local newspaper, and what a message to send via Al Jazeera.

[Edmund Burke]

He could open a chain of party stores in the Detroit area with the bounty money.

[R. Scott]

Yep.

[skinkinthegrass]

...they overlook the possibility that it's the GIRLS who tipped off the Americans.///Interesting theory...fairly liberalized one like Iraq, the women has few rights. It would be extremely tempting for the wife to be able to leave...with a $30M nest egg.///For Uday and Qusay to be there, they must have trusted the husband...the wife or daughters had a motive to inform on them.

yeah, like safety for the wife and 4 girls...good points... :)

[Neophyte]

since AP has bought into this culture

Please don't take fiercely scowling and violently staring Arabs shouting about treason and the bounden duty of hospitality on the face value. It's a bullshit Arab machism.

If anything, they're good merchants, so they offer to the gullible Western journos what they believe the latter expect. And treason is in their blood, thus, given a chance, anyone of ah so emotional sheikh's neighbours would sell the brothers with their hats, shoes and ofal... for much less than $ 30 million at that.

[Coop]

"They [Uday and Qusay] are Iraqi people," said Waad Hamadi, 43, another neighbor.

Go ahead folks, call me a bigot. I just cannot fathom how pervasive stupidity is among Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian men (and women for that matter).

[gaspar]

You would have to live in the Middle East to understand. Two hundred generations have bowed to the whip. Thus it is not surprising that envy, greed, deviousness, bellycrawling are dominant personality traits.

[Coop]

Thus it is not surprising that envy, greed, deviousness, bellycrawling are dominant personality traits.

But I'm more concerned with stupidity. The quoted idiot would rather be "loyal" to the brutal thugs (who destroyed his country and wouldn't think twice about raping his daughter or shooting him in the head) than "betray" an Iraqi citizen.

Could you imagine if I ran around ranting at the truck driver who tipped off police about the D.C. snipers that he had betrayed fellow Americans?

[SauronOfMordor]

In Sadaam's Iraq, you had to be "connected" with the Ba'ath Party in order to obtain and retain wealth. Post-Sadaam, those connections are now worthless. Of course the wealthy neighbors will be upset -- they are now looking at the evaporation of their positions

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the link. I bumped that article to check out later.