Now that he's been caught, he's incommunicado. For all the braying that the National Embarrassment has been doing about not influencing the outcome of any judicial action against Saddam, they sure are holding on to him tightly. Why not just turn his sorry ass over to the Hague and be done with him, let the Iraqi's deal directly with the international courts...you know cut out the middle man?
Saddam Hussein is now prisoner No. 1 in what has developed into a global detention system run by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, according to government officials.
It is a secretive universe, they said, made up of large and small facilities scattered throughout the world that have sprouted up to handle the hundreds of suspected terrorists of Al Qaeda, Taliban warlords and former officials of the Iraqi government arrested by the United States and its allies since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the war in Iraq.
The intelligence value he has is pretty minimal I'll bet, but the bones he can toss out about the previous US Administrations (Reagan/Bush) are pretty big. Don't expect to see him turned over to anyone until close to the election in 2004...and then only if the outcome seems in doubt. Why? It'll prove that Preznit Too-stupid-to-eat-a-pretzel is an "internationalist" and is working for the best interest of the Iraqi people. All previous evidence against that notwithstanding.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.17.03 at 11:12 PM
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How is it that the US was able to find Hussein in a so-called spider hole but has not been able to find the Valerie Plame leaker in the White House?
posted by: Jeffrey on 12.17.03 at 11:45 PM [permalink]
How is it that the US was able to find Hussein in a so-called spider hole but has not been able to find the Valerie Plame leaker in the White House?
posted by: Jeffrey on 12.17.03 at 11:45 PM [permalink]
If they gave the 1600 Crew a few weeks in Gitmo, we would find out soon enough.
Saddam knows he's facing death, so he isn't going to give anything worth hearing. He will probably tell a lot of interesting stories if they put him on public trial.
posted by: Bryan on 12.18.03 at 01:38 AM [permalink]
