Saddam rings his wife once a week

[rooboy]

Saddam Hussein's second wife, who lives with the ousted Iraqi leader's only surviving son under an assumed name in Lebanon, said her husband calls or writes to them at least once a week, a London newspaper reported today.

"If he cannot say something in detail on the telephone, I know I will receive a letter in two to three days giving me an explanation," Samira Shahbandar told The Sunday Times in an interview.

After the Iraq war in March, Shahbandar - described by the paper as mysterious and the closest of Saddam's four wives - said she crossed the border into Syria, then travelled to Beirut where she was given a Lebanese passport.

Now living under the name of Hadija, she said she expected to move to Paris next month.

She said Saddam, ousted as Iraq's president following the US-led war on Iraq in March, had given her $US5 million ($A6.78 million) in cash and a hoard of jewellery and gold before sending her and his 21-year-old son, Ali, over the border into Syria.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/14/1071336803092.html

[T Bone]

1. She knows where he is, but Junior* doesn't

sounds about right.

[BlueCollar]

4. that would make her

" a person of interest"...

Do they have a cell in GITMO for her?

[liberalnurse]

7. That cracks me up so much!

:yourock:

[dusingle]

8. If they found SH

how the hell would he be able to make another terra strike?

:eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Guess what?

They just found Saddam, supposedly.

[PartyPooper]

2. What do you bet her phones are tapped?

:freak:

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. I yi yi. And we still can't find him?

So much for our vaunted intelligence if we can't even tell if she's shitting us or not.

[mmm]

5. Love your Christmas spirit

wish I didn't feel the same way

[Minstrel Boy]

6. Probably more often than Bush speaks to Pickles.

If he ever wants to send her across a border, he better look elsewhere.

[TeeYiYi]

9. Yeah, yeah. It was probably a Carlyle transport plane . . .

. . . that flew her and her son safely out of the country ala the Bin Laden 9.11 family exodus. :eyes:

TYY

[Dr Fate]

10. Like many Republicans, Saddam needs to get LAID!!!

n/t

[UpInArms]

12. I found this paragraph very interesting

"If he cannot say something in detail on the telephone, I know I will receive a letter in two to three days giving me an explanation," Samira Shahbandar told The Sunday Times in an interview.

What a grand postal system!

a letter in 2 or 3 days from Iraq to Lebanon!

What???

So, someone explain to me how this works.

Does SH write out his letter and run it over to the US Army base postal system?

It takes longer than that for a letter to get across the US. I am impressed.

[JPace]

13. "said her husband calls or writes to them at least once a week"

Bet he won't be calling her anymore!