Romantic Duo Nearly Caught Saddam

If you are one of those cynical conspiracy theorists, your jaw may drop to discover what Marie Colvin reported in Britain's Sunday Times back in September, 2003.....Colvin is wasted on current affairs. There is a wartime romance novelist in her, just bursting to get out.... It's positively spooky......Marie Colvin's 7th, September report from Tikrit, Iraq was headlined: "Search for Saddam reaches graveyards, farmyards." She was writing from the "epicentre" of the manhunt. A hunt led by the vocally swaggering Colonel James Hickey, commander of 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division....You'll never guess where Hickey had set up the headquarters for his manhunt operation.... "His officers shoot doves off the veranda at dusk and Hickey sometimes stands there at night, looking out at lights in the farms across the river and thinking of bigger prey. "

Wow! This means Hickey is gazing out at the actual farms, on one of which, Saddam will three months later be caught! If only he knew. But, hold on. There's more...."There is a high probability that this old man is in my area of operations," Hickey said last week. " Oh! this is nail-biting stuff...."Hickey calculates that the modest farms below are more likely to hide Saddam than any villa." ...Oh God! I can't take this anymore. Hickey, for crying out loud, Saddam is just across the river. Follow your gut feelings, man. What's the point of being this perceptive and yet not acting on your instincts?

"Please don't ask us to believe," you will say, "that Saddam is dumb-ass enough to set up house just minutes from the hunt HQ. " "And don't expect us to swallow," you might continue, "that when Colvin tells us that Hickey reckons Saddam is exactly where he was found three months later, that it's prophetic or a coincidence. Those two Yanks were laying a line on us! Prophetic, my ass!"...it's not the first time Colvin has been accused of being a mouthpiece for one side in a war....Oh my God! Maybe you are right. I just discovered something.

Colvin pops up again on the very day that Saddam was pronounced captured. And she helped launch a conspiracy theory, believe it or not!...She had just interviewed Saddam's mistress turned second wife..."It is possible," writes Okaz, that "for delivering the head of her husband she will receive the award of $25 million.....," And so the conspiracy theory is up and running. Yet, even a moment's consideration will tell you that making regular telephone calls under the watchful eyes of US satellites would be madness....
It is inconceivable that Saddam would be so stupid... Marie Colvin seems to have played the same role twice...But, as revealed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series of articles, that assumption is false. The Saddam Hussein capture was a fake....curiouser and curiouser....downright spooky.

In every sense of that word.

http://www.gulufuture.com/saddam-romance.htm

Anyway, didn't the Kurds catch Saddam?

The Sunday Mail
GORDON THOMAS 21dec03
The Sunday Mail

SADDAM Hussein was captured through the demands of the one woman he still trusted. She is Samira Shahbander, the second of his four wives.

On December 11 she contacted Saddam from an Internet cafe in Ba'albeck, near Beirut.

Samira and Saddam's only surviving son, Ali, have lived under assumed names in Lebanon since leaving Baghdad months before the war started.

Samira, whose curly blonde hair came from the same French hair product company that provided Saddam with his hair dye, was the married woman who first became Saddam's mistress and then his wife.

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http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,8223166%255E904,00.html

Essentially the article claims the Mossad tracked Saddaam through his phone calls to his second wife. At LEAST to his rough location.

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