military and parroted the lines they were given. They ran the pictures supplied by the U.S. Not one publication took the time to research the story.
Saddam told him that he was captured in a friend’s house and that he was drugged and tortured for two days, hence the pictures of Saddam looking bedraggled.Īll the major news networks and publications showed pictures of the hole and a beleaguered Saddam: Time Magazine, CNN News, The former Marine’s account mixes with the rendition Saddam Hussein gave his lawyer when they had their first meeting. How did we come to see the pictures of the hole and a scruffy-looking Saddam Hussein? According to Rabeh, “Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam’s capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well.” Then, the Marines shouted at him in Arabic, “You have to surrender. Rabeh recounted how Saddam fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed. 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. version of the capture date being off by two days, during an interview in Lebanon, Rabeh stated: The UPI press release consisted of quotes from an ex-U.S. On March 8, 2005, United Press International ( UPI) ran a short press release titled “Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction.” It received little publicity in the U.S., but some foreign news agencies did run the story His day was done and he was now in the hands of Iraq’s liberators. The story was that he was holed up there and was totally irrelevant to Iraq. public made jokes about him and his hiding place. In December 2003, we all saw the photos of a disheveled Saddam Hussein after he was pulled out of a “spider hole” in a town near Tikrit. An excerpt from the recently published book The Mother of All Battles: The Endless U.S.-Iraq War by Malcom Lagauche:
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