One of the feel good stories of 2003 has got to be the capture of Saddam Hussein. We've all heard the story of heroic U.S. troops capturing Hussein thanks to some brilliant U.S. intelligence work. This is the story told by the American government so it has to be the truth, right?
Stories today tell a different tale. According to the Sunday Express, Hussein was captured by U.S. troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him. "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", this British Sunday paper claims.
This is a very different story from the one we've been told this Christmas. Sure, the typical left-leaning crowd has been sharing their conspiracy theories since the moment CNN broke with the story, but I took those with a grain of salt. This is the same crowd that makes a big deal out of the fact the turkey Dubya held during his Thanksgiving trip to Iraq was fake. I must admit, the timing of this capture was rather convenient for Dubya and this new account of what happened is an intriguing one. It will have to be substantiated further though, because I understand the Sunday Express isn't the most credible of sources.
While we're questioning the honesty of US reports about the capture of Hussein, it's worth noting the date theory. I'm not taking credit for what some are calling "Date Gate", I read it here first. There's a photo of soldiers at Hussein's spider hole was supposedly taken on December 15th, 2003. In the background, you can clearly see yellow fruit on the date palm behind the soldiers. Date fruit grows from March to August in Iraq, and is yellow in August, not December.
We have Saddam Hussein, now we want the truth!
