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Offline JB88

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« on: March 10, 2005, 04:15:53 AM »
"is was beautiful!"

of course it was beautiful! .... I WAS ACTING!!!! ....   LINE!!!!







Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

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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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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2005, 04:48:24 AM »
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"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.







 

Interesting well design...
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2005, 05:37:09 AM »
What makes you think that drawing is not part of the fabrication Holden?

Did you see the capture with your own eyes or did you perhaps see the publification the department of information wanted you to see?

Anything that comes from wartime media has to be taken with a grain of salt.
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2005, 05:50:56 AM »
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"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.


According to Abou Rabeh, it is a fabrication, and a well.  I just question the design of the well.  I've never seen a rectangular styrofoam well plug before.  I've also never seen the need for a vent in a well.  (you can see the galvanized pipe (identified in the schematics as a vent pipe) behind the Marine in the second photo.
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2005, 05:57:54 AM »
Who gives a poop, he's captured.
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2005, 06:06:41 AM »
me thinks some ex-marine is looking for another 15 minutes of fame ...
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2005, 06:12:03 AM »
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me thinks some ex-marine is looking for another 15 minutes of fame ...


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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2005, 07:23:53 AM »
Looks more like a pole for the washing line to me Holden , on the second picture u can see stuff hanging of it :)
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2005, 07:37:17 AM »
Hey we all know a Saudi paper would never deviate from the truth about anything america does.

You know how you can tell its for real?

Look at the phrase the soldiers used

""You have to surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."


now you KNOW American soldiers said that. and it must be true.

Bahgdad Bob would never use termonology like that;)
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2005, 09:10:17 AM »
This just in.... Moon landing Faked!


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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2005, 09:10:53 AM »
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Hey we all know a Saudi paper would never deviate from the truth about anything america does.

You know how you can tell its for real?

Look at the phrase the soldiers used

""You have to surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."


now you KNOW American soldiers said that. and it must be true.

Bahgdad Bob would never use termonology like that;)


Exactly, perfect response to this nonsense.

"There are no American troops at the Baghdad airport".

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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2005, 09:15:55 AM »
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Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

United Press International

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.


What are the odds that of a 20-man unit there would be eight of Arab descent including Abou Rabeh (Lebanese) and a Sudanese who was killed?
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2005, 09:21:32 AM »
If it was a styro foam plug then why does it take 2 marines to pick it up?
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2005, 09:32:49 AM »
And why is the plug outside on the ground?? The pictures clearly show the entrance of the well/spiderhole to be inside a dwelling..  Or, was the dwelling 'removed' prior to the capture of the century?
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2005, 10:16:43 AM »
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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."


Hilarious.

It would be a lot easier to believe if this were reversed - that the story fed to the public  was that there was a shootout in a bungalow and even Sadam himself was chucking lead out a 2nd floor window, but the carefully guarded secret is that he was quietly pulled from a pathetic little hole.

These people really need to learn to think before they start making sh*t up.
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