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 reported on Sunday. 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 Saddamâs son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
| Oh, well, that sounds authoritative, doesn't it? |
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi presidentâs capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, âexposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incompleteâ. 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: âSaddam 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.â
Three unnamed sources, a melodramatic blood feud, unspecified "political advantage" for a political party never heard from before... Sounds like deconstruction to me. I think I'll stick with the painstaking intelligence work and a little luck story.
Update: Al-Jizz has (naturally) picked up the story. |
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