IRAQ: Saddam's Arrest - Yet Another Version Surfaces

[pinto]

no other sources for this take, but it's an interesting read...

By Ritt Goldstein

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 9 (IPS/GIN) -- U.S. accounts have portrayed Saddam's capture as a triumph of American high-tech innovation and old-fashioned ingenuity, but reports in the Middle East and off-the-record interviews give a version of events decidedly different from those already known.

Since the announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture Dec. 14, conflicting accounts of events have been heralded as truth, first that he was nabbed by the United States, then by the Kurds. But as often, the truth seems to lie somewhere in between, and contains some unheralded facts.

Foremost among those unsung facts is the capture by the U.S. 4th Army of a member of the al Muslit family -- trusted relatives and lieutenants of Saddam -- by U.S. forces in July. This spawned a fateful chain of events leading to the former dictator's reported betrayal and drugging in a plan supposedly inspired by the United States and pursued by his betrayer.

But while Kurds from the Iraq-based Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) were said to be acting as go-betweens with U.S. authorities, they pursued a triumph of their own and essentially snatched control of Saddam from the hands of his captors. This they did with suspected Iranian related support.

http://www.globalinfo.org/eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=27354

[madison]

1. Another link to read it...

You can't read it at that link unless you are a subscriber, so here is another link:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/goldstein1.html

[DUreader]

3. another here

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0109-03.htm

[DUreader]

2. This seems to pull together several reports so it is from other sources

It is basically an overview of most of the various sources that reported on the fiasco/cover-up

[pinto]

4. thks for links.