TIME Exclusive: Notes from Saddam in Custody

TIME ^ | Dec. 14, 2003 | BRIAN BENNETT

[Doe Eyes]

Usual Time B.S. I doubt that anyone connected with his interrofation would talk to Time

I'm not believing anything until its posted by Newsmax.com.

[Atlantian]

Who will be Time's Person of the Year, Bush or Saddam?

[angkor]

Saddam Hussein was not in hiding; he was a prisoner.

I know you posted it reluctantly. However there's nothing there to support the conclusion that he was a prisoner.

I recall a post from some time ago (a month? 2 months?) stating that Saddam was riding around Baghdad in a taxi and was sporting a full beard.

[SauronOfMordor]

According to analysts, these seven anomalies point to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein was not in hiding; he was a prisoner. . . .

Perhaps his "followers" realized that Saddam would cut any sort of deal to save his butt, including selling out all his followers.

[Ole Okie]

“If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?”

The Mother of All Pee Breaks looms!

He ain't been since the Coalition invaded!

[squidly]

I never believed that, short of torture, we'd get much out of Saddam. The intelligence boon, if there is one, will come from Iraqis who will feel free to come forward and tell what they know now that they no longer fear Saddam's retribution.

[Smogger]

Yeah right. Saddam's gonna talk. He's a coward. Even Hitler took his own life.

He'll tell us whatever we want to know if we spare him the death penalty.

Saddam's in a LOT of TROUBLE. We can help him though.

We just need him to answer a few thousand questions.

[Smogger]

I never believed that, short of torture, we'd get much out of Saddam.

I doubt torture will be necessary. He'll talk to save his own skin.

[oceanview]

whose prisoner? why does a prisoner need $750K in cash? and what prisoner carries a pistol?

[WVNan]

Uh oh....there's the new spin. Bush has kept Saddam buried in a hole for months and pretended to capture him in time to help his re-election campaign. What to place bets?

[Dog]

The interrogators also asked Saddam if he knew about the location of Captain Scott Speicher

YES!!!!

[Gumption]

“If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?”

Clearly, one of the great criminal minds of our time.

[Aquinasfan]

“We didn’t want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy.”

He's maintained a sense of humor anyway.

But seriously, why has this info been given to the press? Nothing should be released to the media.

[Gumption]

LOL!!!

[arasina]

The Iraqis need to be able to confront Hussein in a trial. And no one would truly know the truth if he had not been captured alive.

[arichtaxpayer]

Saddam learned about bathroom breaks from Al Gore.

[lchoro]

The conditions under which Saddam was captured -- alone with two bodyguard, a couple of guns, $750,000 and hiding in a "spider hole" in the ground -- does not, at first glance, indicate that he was in any way in a position to lead a consistent resistance movement of any sort. There were no immediate reports of communication equipment or even a cell phone in the small underground hole he was hiding in. His appearance was for more that of a man trying to save his own life than that of one leading an uprising.


Recent reports form Baghdad also indicate that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has been funneling more and more of its efforts -- both financial and logistical -- away from Afghanistan, and concentrating them on Iraq instead, where the new war on terror is now being fought.


The immediate dividends from Saddam's capture is that it will finally convince those Iraqis who were sitting on the fence, those who were unsure if the dictator would eventually return to power, that this dark chapter of their history is finally closed. Former Baath officials in U.S. captivity who saw Saddam looking like the prisoner from the "Count of Monte Cristo" will no longer fear his wrath and would likely become more cooperative with their American captors.

http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20031214-112018-1415r

[Dog]

Agreed ...Saddam will talk.

Everytime we enter the room to question him.....we need to have a member of the Kurdish Peshmerga along with us....

Saddam will be given the choice TALK or the Kurds get you!

[NCjim]

“If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom...

He probably remembers the effect of the ice tea on Al Gore.

[Chad Fairbanks]

It does no good to allow him to continue to spew his propoganda for the next 20 years or so.

I have a nagging feeling that he won't last anywhere near that long...