Just Reported - Saddam Already out of the Country

[NashVegas]

Heard on CBS.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Heading where?

Any idea?

[davhill]

3. Gitmo is my guess

[NashVegas]

5. Didn't Say

But the other poster is probably right; if not Gitmo, a ship in international or US waters would be my guess.

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Probably straight out to a ship in the gulf...

Trust me, they want him back in the US pdq...

[underpants]

7. I'd guess Qatar

Just a guess.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. I bet Osama

is mixing up a batch of Pina Coladas right now.

[jenk]

2. they're taking him to the Outback Steakhouse in Kuwait

nah, he's probably leading them to the WMD.

[underpants]

8. Why not the one in the Sudan they have yellow cake?

:bounce:

[jenk]

11. he's probably having tea & cookies with Rumsfeld in a Turkish cafe

old friends, reacquainted

SH- "So how have you been Don?"

DR- "Oh you know, they're all over my ass"

SH- "Tell me about it, but don't you think you brought me out a little early"

DR- "Perhaps, we're going to see how this helps the Dummy in the polls, if the boost is not substantial, we'll just orchestrate a prison break and re capture you when the time is right"

[peekaloo]

13. Wasn't Rummy "in the neighborhood" last week?????

Hey old buddy, ya look like sh*t, take this $700,000 and for God's sake clean yerself up before my boys "officially" arrive.

:evilfrown:

[JohnyCanuck]

23. Or have you shot while trying to escape

Perhaps, we're going to see how this helps the Dummy in the polls, if the boost is not substantial, we'll just orchestrate a prison break and re capture you when the time is right.

[cthrumatrix]

4. CIA is taking him to Disney...* hit the "trifecta"....again

[kalian]

6. Out of sight....out of mind....

Just like Noriega...

[Sagan]

9. Iraqis ain't going to like that

They have a war crimes tribunal set up already.

[htuttle]

17. Correct

The Bush administration could very well blow the goodwill they lucked upon today in Iraq over the issue of the trial. Given their past 'bipolar' behavior, they are probably feeling pretty manic and invulnerable right now, ie., "Why should they listen to anyone, especially the IGC..."

You know, it occurs to me that many parties in Iraq are going to be pushing very hard for an open trial. Consider the Shia -- whatever their glee over the capture of Hussein, they remember who backed up Hussein in the US and hung them out to dry in the '80's (and again in the '90's). They might like to get that fact in the official record...

[Gloria]

25. Yes, most of the callers today to BBC wanted an open trial.....

these were Iraqis, some calling from Iraq, Norway, London, etc.
I think one caller wanted the death sentence. One said they didn't want a hanging in the square, there had been enough of that. One wanted him to work at burying dead from mass graves.

The emphasis was on a trial and a couple of the callers brought up the potentially "embarrassing" stuff about the US, Britain, etc. and how they had installed and propped up SH.

Of course, that would be unfit for US consumption. And, from what I've read, Iraqis already know what role we played with SH, and that is one of the reasons they are not happy about our presence....

And the raping of their country isn't going down well either....

[Muddleoftheroad]

10. From a security standpoint

This makes a lot of sense. They want no chance he will escape, so I would say Gitmo.

[NashVegas]

12. I Don't Think They're Worried About Escape

I think they're worried about the press getting info that doesn't come straight from CentCom.

[Muddleoftheroad]

24. I'd be worried about both

He is an intelligence asset and might know stuff about weapons, troops, attacks, leaders, etc. He should be interrogated for a long time and that requires privacy and security.

[NashVegas]

14. Update - Unconfirmed

now, says Rather.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Sadaam captured?

My local CBS is covering NFL right now. I am a football fan, but gimme a break.

[NashVegas]

18. They've Been on It All Morning

I set my DVR to tape something off network TV at 6:30 am, and it was pre-empted by this.

all the church programs were also pre-empted.

But I wouldn't discount the Heidi factor.

[Tuttle]

20. welcome...

has anyone noticed how heavy Saddam's beard is in the photo where they shaved it off???

Strikes me as a bit odd --



Tut-tut

[54anickel]

22. Hmmm also pretty fashionable haircut and where's the owie above the

left eye and the age-spot above the right? Did they actually allow him to shower and clean-up before the after picture? That would be the only explaination for that bright white T-shirt.

[Tuttle]

26. Gee - you don't think they'd doctor these photos?

Naw - actually photo credit was US ARMY so you know they are authentic and unabridged!

Tut-tut

[san antonio]

30. He cleaned up...

I was wondering the same things but his scars in the "after" picture look just like the ones in the "before" picture only treated and cleaned.

[Rainbows]

31. Yes Sir, the owie is ...

red, enflamed, and scabbed in the original, and miraculously healed and gone with a shave, shower, and haircut; not to mentioned the days growth of his wiskers in just a few hours.

[jmowreader]

27. If the left picture and the right picture were both taken today...

these are two different men.

Look at the left eyebrow. In the "after" picture, the left eyebrow is bushier at the outside than it is in the "before" picture.

[TeeYiYi]

21. NBC says they took him to Baghdad airport . . .

. . . where they torture the rest of the Iraqi detainees.

TYY

OK. NBC didn't say torture. That was me. But he IS supposedly at the airport.

[Bucky]

35. "at the airport where he's eating plastic turkey leftovers! Call Amnesty!"

[Rainbows]

28. !!! TOP SECURITY!!! (Memo) No Time for Jack Ruby ...

Get his ass out now before he can expose our skeletons!!! We will take care of this one from Camp Xray: GWB

[qanda]

29. I kept hearing people on C-SPAN say

They should return him to Iraq and have him tried before his people and I had NO idea what they were talking about. When was this information released?

[Tinoire]

32. deleted/ wrong thread

[tlcandie]

33. Besides NOT stubble there should be a difference in the color

of the skin (lighter?) underneath where the PREVIOUS FULL beard worn for MONTHS has been while he's been rat-holed in a nothing tunnel?

:shrug:

Possibly the left is REAL while the capture is a look alike so they could pull off the JUST NOW nabbed him thing?

:shrug:

[Tuttle]

34. Good point!!!

I think there may be a bit of "The Turkey has Landed" and "Saving Pvt Lynch" happening here...

Maybe we should start a thread in GD?

Tut-tut

[Moderator]

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