Oh i'm gonna get it for this :P

Post-9/11 Era Forum

OK. Here's the link.

THE LINK! <-- RED FONT!

Now. I want us all to sit back and take a good read through this link. You'll notice one thing that is mentioned is the virtual silence of the American and British press - and i agree, this would be expected.

Let's see...

I would be VERY disappointed to learn this is true. I have speculated about the Jessica Lynch rescue enough and this would seal the deal. Most of the world managed to be wrapped in the conspiracy theories there. Not most Americans though. You'd have been hard pressed to find one that doesn't believe the story. But truely, i'm sorry, it doesn't smell good to me.

Now there are a lot of facts and statements in the provided link.

I am very interested in hearing your thoughts on this information... Everyone.

Oooooh i'm gonna pay for this! :P

Nahhh. Doesn't make sense. Why would the kurds trap him so close to his own home town? Also, why would they give him clean clothes and food, as well as a bomb-safe hiding spot within the "cell"?

Doesn't matter to me anyway. Saddam could verify that the kurds -not the U.S.- caught him by opening his mouth. He's in the U.S. and Iraqi's custody, there's no reason why he can't set the story straight.

One word here:

.org


Now, go pound more sand!

But what about all these links Curl?

Even Rupert's people have picked it up:

** We got him: Kurds say they caught Saddam, McGeogh, Sydney Morning Herald

** Saddam: Betrayed, drugged and traded Aljazeera

** Saddam was captured by Kurds, not US Sify.com

** Revealed: Who Really Found Saddam? Pratt, Sunday Herald/Scotland

Saddam held by Kurds, drugged and left for US troops: report ABC News Online

Kurds claim Saddam capture News.com.au (12/22/03)

Kurds Seized Saddam First, Novinite/Bulgaria

'Revenge for rape behind Saddam capture'

Report: ''Saddam capture - not result of American or British intelligence'' Al Bawaba.com

Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops Arab Times/Kuwait

Kurds claim Saddam capture The Australian (12/22/03)

Kurds claim Saddam capture Herald Sun/AU (12/22/03)

Saddam was held by Kurds and left for US troops: ReportHindustan Times (copy of AFP report)

Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops Channel News Asia (AFP report)

Kurds claim Saddam capture The Advertiser/AU (12/22/03)

** Kurds, Not U.S. Captured Saddam: Report Islam Online/UK

Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops Kurdish Media (AFP report)


Revealed: Who Really Found Saddam? Infoshop News (Pratt article)


Kurds, Not U.S. Captured Saddam: Report Palestinian Chronicle

** ‘Kurdish forces nabbed & drugged Saddam’ The Statesman/India

Kurds nabbed Saddam first? Today Online/Singapore (AFP report)

Saddam Captured by Kurds; US Troops Get Photo Opp Conspiracy Planet

Our little Pilger Pimper, Coogoo, is at it again...

If you look at all of the news bits that claim the Kurds captured Saddam and threw him in a pit, drugged... they all cite the same source... including the one from ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1014319.htm

"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."

It all boils down to this:

A British tabloid newspaper....

An unnamed senior British military intelligence officer....

An unnamed Iraqi intelligence officer...

Add to that the rumors that he was drugged and that the Kurds caught him... and one has quite a juicy propaganda piece to proffer.

It's all horsesh*it... and you can bookmark this post, too, for future reference.


--JV

Okay, so when the British tabloid NAMES these people, as they'll be forced to do eventually (well, they'll at least have to verify their story - the world's press will demand it, your mates on Fox included) - so if these guys are named:

An unnamed senior British military intelligence officer....

An unnamed Iraqi intelligence officer...

And these guys repeat the story they told the newspaper, I'm guessin your job will then be to immediately set about dis-crediting them as sources.

Am I right?

Also be interesting to see how the Administration spins it ...... - how'd they get out of the saying Jessica Lynch fought to the death and was rescued in a daring firefight? Think they might've blamed someone ... ... but I can't remember and can't be ****ed looking it up.

Anyway.

Anyway, as they say, there's no propaganda like you're own jv, hm?

Let's just see how this pans out, how CNN, Fox, etc pick it up and run with it - I mean, we here in Oz are a long way in front time-wise and our papers tomorrow morning are already being printed with the story...

anyway.

As I said before. I know someone who witnessed it and he's with te 4th ID.
Get over it.

Considering everything Saddam has done to the Kurds under his regime, it would lead me to speculate that had they really caught him, he would've been tortured and murdered out of general principle.

chelktty,
That requires too much common sense for some on this board to figure out.
Everything is a conspiracy with them.
There is a psychological term for those who dwell on the negative but, I can't remember the name of it.

Thanks Curley.
Some could even be suffering from PTSD, just from anxiety about this War.

Maybe Jacko knows where the WMDs are. Maybe Elvis does. Or maybe there aren't any.Maybe Iraq actually destroyed them before the war but didn't keep any records of doing it, and because he couldn't prove it (because his word wasn't worth poop) we invaded and conquered his country.

That sound about right?

IRAQI editorial page:

Justice has caught the bloodsucker, the despot who has humiliated his people and relatives…. The cries of the honest people in Iraq and the entire world were heard calling for freedom for the patient Iraqis, the people of goodness and the people of history and the people of knowledge which has shone over the world…. This is the clearest and most beautiful morning in my country, Mesopotamia. Be joyful, oh my brothers, be joyful, oh my brothers, for this is great news for Iraq.

—Al-'Ahd Al-Jadid (by Abd Al-Bassit Al-Naqqash)

Or maybe Saddam Hussein really owns the United States and has set this whole thing up as a scam. Maybe everything we see on TV is only what he allows us to see? Hey, most of us wouldn't know the difference. He could secretly rule the whole planet. Maybe there's life on Mars and only he knows about it? Maybe that's why Nasa is such a secretive and expensive operation? Saddam owns the entire solar system! Martians included! Wow... For all we know Saddam might actually own the whole universe! Is he god? If he was, how would we know?

LOL @ sayzak21

That's not possible! I own the piece of space located exactly at coordinates 45.366667, -63.3 between 3.879km and 4.108km. It's mine, ALL MINE!

Jv, you have some serious issues and these issues have nothing to do with the war or anything on this board. Please see a doctor before you hurt yourself.

It seems that everything is a movie with you europeans. Do you have any sence of reality?
Why would you even bother yourself with such rediculous crap. Anything to prove that America is evil right? This type of crap shows your intelligence, or lack of it.
I bet you actually believe that "Wag the Dog" was a documentary.

Instead of applauding the fact that Saddam is doomed to spend eternity in hell, you find fault with the capture to turn away the evant as some evil conspiracy.
This is very immature of you frenchfries, I expected differntly from you, but you have now changed my impression of you. Just plain gullable.

Gullible is spelt "gullible", and is described in the Oxford Dictionary as "Believing implicitly that Iraq was invaded just to free the Iraqis and protect America from terrorism."

Guilty. But aren't we all?