[iwar] Saddam capture story spin?

Saddam held by Kurds, drugged and left for US troops: report
Saddam Hussein 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 tabloid newspaper has reported.

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, "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."

-- AFP

------------------
http://all.net/

Yahoo! Groups Links

To visit your group on the web, go to:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iwar/

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
 iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
 http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Received on Sat Dec 20 21:04:13 2003