they were told of the spidey-hidey at 11am, local time.
they thought saddam moved every 3 hours or so.
they waited for darkness and moved in at 6pm
find saddam at 8.30pm.
fly him out at 9.15
i dunno - maybe it takes 7 huors to mobilize the troops. im not sure why they would 'wait' for darkness. perhaps 600 soldiers and bradleys and helicopters thuoght they could add an element of surprise by sneaking up on saddam in the dark. Surprise - it us!
have u ever tried searching a remote farm area about half a mile wide and a mile and a half deep? at night? can you imagine "noticing an edge of a fabric-backed rubber mat peeking through soil edging the concrete floor in the home's courtyard" in the dark?
the entrance to the hole is tiny - early reports sed the soldiers actually had to dig to get saddam out. "It was more cramped than it appeared in photographs. Its entrance was barely large enough for a burly man like Mr. Hussein, to squeeze through"
yet somehow, "soldiers peered down into the shaft with weapons and bright lights, with orders to kill Mr. Hussein if he put up a fight, held back when they saw he carried no body belt bomb or gun and appeared to be pleading for his life."
apart from the general issues i have about peering with weapons, one wonders how much of any peering could have been done looking at this 'schematic', at nite mind you.
did he 'appear to be pleading' with his feet? perhaps he hadnt tried on the 'new shoes' yet and is able to signspeak - with his toes. 'im saddam - im here to negotiate'. if i was pleading in front of a couple of guys with guns, id prolly make it pretty damn sure - i dont want them having a discussion 'is he really pleading for his life or is he asking for the new michael jackson cd?'
im at a stretch trying to understand how triggerhappy kidkillers could possibly have ascertained that there was no gun, no bodybeltbomb, no boobytrap, and 'held back' (thnx 4 your constraint gentlemen - id have been pretty scared sticking my head into a dark hole).
(the 'walled farm compound' is cute - it has a nice waco touch - altho 'compound' is defined as 'enclosed by a barrier' - the picture clearly shows that it wasnt enclosed)
and then there was this fab piece of work from the pentagon prhack about the images, which "were not in breach of international law because he had not been formally charged. "
and this doozy: "The bedroom was cluttered with new clothes, including T-shirts and socks, some still in their wrappers, leading General Odierno to estimate that Mr. Hussein had been at the site perhaps only an hour or so. "
a+b=whatnow???????
and secondly, this was 9 hours after they got the tip that he was there. and the fukking USbarmy had been onsite for at least 2.5 hours. perhaps saddam snuck thru the perimeter wall and climbed into his rat&mice infected spideyhole without being noticed and just waited.
i dont know what to make of it all - but it smells fishy - as always with this stoopid badministration. perhaps its saddam and he made a deal to be 'captured' or perhaps its one of his quadruples. whatever.
the good news is that we surely know it is saddam cos we saw a dental exam on tv which looked like it was swabbing his dna. and cos "Pentagon officials said Mr. Hussein's identity had been confirmed by old bullet wounds and by other Iraqis who saw him. " i dunno how long it takes to get dna samples, but the old 'iraqis who saw him' thing proffers some pretty quick feedback. isnt the point of having doubles that people cant tell the difference?
and are old bullet wounds as effective as dna? how bout fingerprinting? where are the pix of the bullet wounds? where are the pix/stories of him being fingerprinted? isnt that the first thing that happens when people get arrested in the US? have they dusted the palaces for his prints? i can betchya that scott petersons house has been dusted from top 2 bottom. how have they determined their basecase on the dna/fingerprints? did they swab rumsfleds hand for traces since they last met?
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