This posting, and the rest like it, are totally ridiculous for a rec.boats
newsgroup.

What does this have to do with boating? And why do you think people would
come to rec.boats to read this type of info.

Having to sort through these long threads to find anything to do with
boating is a total crock of ****!

Not trying to **** of you, or your multitude of followers, and critics, but
why don't you post this information in a group where it belongs?

Hell, more crap in here than in the porno or politics groups.

I am sure this will have no impact, so go ahead and bitch!

Mike


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Public version of Saddam capture fiction

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 9 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Marine who
participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the
public version of his capture was fabricated.

Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi
daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday,
Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.

"I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who
searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we
found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as
announced," Abou Rabeh said.

"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese
origin was killed," he said.

He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room
on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to
surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."

"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's
capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.

Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.


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