From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An interesting take on recent news events surrounding Saddam, and does pose some potentially intruiging questions. Possibly meaningless, but the suggestion about negotiations IRT the reward money going sour.. I dunno.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=743
Seems ridiculous to me. The US gladly paid out $30 million to the tipster for the Hussein boys, and freely stated so. Why would this be different? I don't buy that national pride argument that the US needed to capture him rather than get him handed over. In fact, I think that if he had been betrayed and turned over by his own closest people, it would have been a powerful message to the remaining fighters that the cause is lost. That, and some happy Iraqis with a giant $25 million check makes good PR as well, and could encourage future sellouts among the terrorists.
Also, if he was captive, why would they leave him with AK-47's, a pistol, and the cash? Why was he blocked in - because a more easily exited hiding spot would be easier to discover. All the other arguments also seem to have simple explanations that don't require Saddam to have been a captive.
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