[A-List] Ex-Marine contests Saddam capture story

[Erik Freye <efreye@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=422B960A-26BA-4891-9E60-21C8818788D4

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.

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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