12-19-2005, 07:32 PM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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According to this UPI "report", Ex-Sgt Nadim Abou Rabeh claims that:
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
"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," Abou Rabeh said.
Oddly enough Mr. Abou Rabeh doesn't show up in any DOD records databases that are available to the public.
Military.com has a rather extensive DOD database to search from called "Buddy Finder" (requires membership which is free). I've used it in the past to look up old friends who I served with, and I've never had a problem finding any of them. Active Duty members show up in the database as well. Now if Mr. Rabeh was indeed an active duty Marine, then he would show up, yet he doesn't.
Of course one should take the entire article fabrication with a big grain of salt, given that the "interview" was conducted in Lebenon. So why would the UPI even bother running what by all accounts is an outright falsehood? Why didn't the UPI even bother to source the story, or do basic fact checking. Is reprinting rumors from Saudi newspapers what constitutes journalism today?
And just to put another nail in the coffin, No Marines were involved in the capture of Saddam. Notice in these pictures the US flags on the shoulders of the soldiers holding Saddam, the Marine Corps does not put flags on their uniforms. Secondly, no Marine units were in that vicinity when Saddam was captured, third, no Marines were killed during that time frame, either the day before, day of or day after.
Case closed.
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This is just a story for the moonbats and something to make Arabs nationalists feel less emasculated by the fall of Iraq.
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