Seems that the 1600 Crew and close relatives are not the only ones who are worried what former All-Around Bad Guy Saddam might spill.
Sheikh Mahmoud Nidda, who heads Saddam Hussein's al-Nasseri tribe, has reasons to be upset. United States forces make his life difficult because he is a relative of the deposed leader. And now, Saddam himself is no longer a source of pride and prestige. He has become reason for embarrassment.
"We are a tribe of brave men," the sheikh, 60, asserts in his large reception hall in Ouja, the village near Tikrit where Saddam was born. "Saddam should have fought. He should have killed a couple of American soldiers and then he should have let them kill him, just like his sons Uday and Qusay did."
It's not about Saddam going out in a "blaze of glory", it's about not having your secrets revealed. What's that latin phrase again, Quid Pro Quo? Hmmmm.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.17.03 at 11:51 PM
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Saddam is down in a hole into which a GI is about to drop a hand grenade and this guy thinks there was an opportunity to do something other than become tomato paste. There's no pleasing some people.
posted by: Bryan on 12.18.03 at 01:33 AM [permalink]
Oh well. Its just as well Saddam insisted we take him alive (as if there was any doubt a guy whose devoted over 3 decades to figuring out how to stay alive would let down at a moment when he was about to be blown away). If he HAD been killed, doubt as to whether the man of a thousand doubles was actually DEAD would have lingered.
