U.S. Ends Latest Search in Iraq; No Sign of Saddam

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TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces ended a search of an isolated corner of Iraq Tuesday after troops backed by helicopters and tanks seized large stockpiles of weapons but found no trace of fugitive dictator Saddam Hussein.

Further north, an Iraqi Kurdish group said its Peshmerga fighters had captured members of Ansar al-Islam, a shadowy group reported to have links with al Qaeda.

Adel Murad, a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told Reuters in Baghdad that 50 people had been rounded up after they crossed the border from Iran.

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"Now we think the group has returned to the area to resume their terrorist acts in Kurdistan and to participate in terrorist operations inside Iraq," he said.

:shrug:

drinking tea on plush pillows and kilims with the "black sheep" of the Bin Laden family.

So, any doubts that this wasn't a big diversion to keep other stories off the news?

current WMW (URL below) from Arab News which actually suggests that the US is NOT really looking all that hard for Saddam!

It's an EXCELLENT piece...will be up until tonight when the new WMW goes up ...and in the Buzzflash archives (8/11 edition)

he asked a couple of different people if they were in charge of the hunt for WMD before the point man was run down for him in WA DC! He *did not know* who was handling it.

They aren't looking for WHATEVER they tell us they are for.

Missing Persons Department.

a couple of weeks sgo when the 911 report was released corporate media was reporting that our troops were only an hour behind Hussein and that his capture was all but imminent. Feckin' idjits.