{"article":{"id":98362,"heading":"Saddam spit at his captors!","author":"inca bunny","created":"2003-12-23 08:51:45","modified":"2013-11-11 00:28:09","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:28:09","article":"

GI 'punched Saddam for spitting at his captors'

By David Rennie in Washington

www.telegraph.co.uk\/

(Filed: 22\/12\/2003)

Saddam Hussein spat at American soldiers moments after his capture and was promptly punched by one of them, according to US government sources.

Time magazine, citing officials familiar with confidential accounts of Saddam's capture, cast doubt yesterday on the Pentagon version, that a defiant Saddam offered to negotiate, only to be told by one GI: \"Regards from President Bush.\"

That exchange is \"apocryphal\", an intelligence official told Time. The true version involved Saddam spitting on his captors as they dragged him from his \"spider-hole\" hiding place.

\"A soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant,\" Time reported. Coalition military spokesmen in Baghdad claimed no knowledge of the fateful punch.

Saddam's capture led to the arrest of hundreds of Iraqis, including some of the leaders of the insurgency, Gen Richard Myers the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff said yesterday. He added that Saddam was not co-operating with US interrogators.

• \"The American Soldier\" was named yesterday as Time magazine Person of the Year.

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml<\/a>;$sessionid$1TVVKXSFDA3TLQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2003\/12\/22\/wirq22.xml&sSheet=\/news\/2003\/12\/22\/ixworld.html<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Let's see now. The Kurds captured Saddam, drugged him and left him in a hole to be found by the U.S. Army. Saddam spit on his captures when dragged from that hole and a G.I. then punched him. What makes me think I'm NEVER going to hear any of this on the nightly news?","numcomment":13,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/12\/98362.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":98391,"heading":"fresca","article":""G.I. then punched him."\r\n\r\nNow see, that's just great.\r\nHopefully they'll be introducing Saddam to the "black slave" soon.","author":"fresca","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-23 15:16:15","modified":"2004-03-09 22:02:00","fileurl":""},{"id":98461,"heading":"spit at his captors?","article":"That wasn't very nice, spitting at the Kurds.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-23 23:43:18","modified":"2003-12-23 23:43:18","fileurl":""},{"id":98463,"heading":"fresca","article":"Why is it that the anti-America crowd seems to think that it's some sort of slight that the Kurds got Saddam (if they in fact did) and not us?\r\n\r\nWhy would any of you think we'd care?\r\n\r\nAs long as we have him now and can do whatever we want with him for however long we want what difference does it make.\r\n\r\nOne things for sure. The guy is a coward and Kurds or no Kurds, he got popped by one of our guys and that will surely humiliate him and the arab world.\r\n\r\nImagine. Their hero drugged and bitch slapped by an American imperialist teenager.\r\n\r\nIt doesn't get any better than this.\r\n\r\nGod! If only the would start releasing video of naked American women forcing bacon down his throat.","author":"fresca","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-23 23:54:43","modified":"2004-03-09 22:02:00","fileurl":""},{"id":98466,"heading":"In the last analysis,","article":"physical abuse of prisoners doesn't really degrade the prisoners, it degrades the captors. That is, if an army that invaded a third world country in order to guarantee the profits of oil companies and make sure Israel was free from serious opposition during its rampages can be degraded to an even lower place than it already occupies.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-24 00:07:24","modified":"2003-12-24 00:07:24","fileurl":""},{"id":98469,"heading":"Meyer you friggin idiot","article":"Read what you just wrote Meyer, you friggin idiot.\r\n\r\nI'm sure we're not abusing Saddam physically. I'm not so sure that's how it ought to be. The jerk deserves to get his ass kicked.\r\n\r\nYou said, "Physical abuse of prisoners doesn't really degrade the prisoners, it degrades the captors. "\r\n\r\nNot true when you've captured a monster like Adolph Hitler or Saddam.\r\n\r\nMeyer, you are an idiot.","author":"Adult Supervisor","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-24 00:49:23","modified":"2003-12-24 00:49:23","fileurl":""},{"id":98499,"heading":"Yes, Meyer you're an idiot","article":"A total fuckwitt, in fact.\r\n\r\nA spitting hissy fit from a genoidal tyrant is probably best dealt with by a slap rather than counselling.\r\n\r\nDo you work in social srvices Meyer?? This is exactly the kind of crap you people come up with. No wonder there is no discipline in the schools these days.","author":"Barney","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-24 08:44:27","modified":"2003-12-24 08:44:27","fileurl":""},{"id":98513,"heading":""Do you work in social srvices Meyer??"","article":"No. He's a two -bit dime store lawyer that thinks he knows how to lead the liberals to a victory in '04. All you "Cheap Labor Conservatives" should fear the wrath of Joe Lyles.","author":"in the know","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-24 13:12:15","modified":"2003-12-24 13:12:15","fileurl":""},{"id":98558,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"If you idiots cannot see that it is wrong to abuse a prisoner.....\r\n\r\n\r\n...wait a minute...what the fuck, of COURSE you think it is OK...you are REPUBLICAN...that is what REPUBLICAN does....good little fascists....you ASPIRE to be like Saddam....only dressed up like Uncle Sam!","author":"KPC","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-24 21:40:46","modified":"2003-12-24 21:40:46","fileurl":""},{"id":98591,"heading":"Wrong to abuse a prisoner??","article":"Who's taking about abuse. Giving a spitting prisoner a slap is not abuse, it's a form of restraint.\r\n\r\nCome over to my house some day, i'll demonstrate what abuse is.","author":"Bigfoot","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-25 01:58:51","modified":"2003-12-25 01:58:51","fileurl":""},{"id":98638,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"So...Log Cabin Republican, huh? Sorry, BigDouche, but my gate don't swing that way....\r\n\r\n...not that there is anything WRONG with it...","author":"KPC","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-25 19:28:30","modified":"2003-12-25 19:28:30","fileurl":""},{"id":98640,"heading":"fresca","article":"KPC...if your antiAmerican, traitorous bunch of buddies ever got hold of Bush you'd abuse him immediately.\r\n\r\nSaddam should be treated in whatever way is required to get maximum info from him.\r\n\r\nAs much as I'd like to say just beat him for kicks, I'll say we should forgo that and just beat him if neccessary.\r\n\r\nWhy the hell not?","author":"fresca","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-25 19:43:29","modified":"2004-03-09 22:02:00","fileurl":""},{"id":99025,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Caducada, have you always been an idiot, or is it something that you work hard at?\r\n\r\nEnquiring minds wanna know.....","author":"KPC","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-31 22:19:36","modified":"2003-12-31 22:19:36","fileurl":""},{"id":99032,"heading":"fresca","article":"Six days and that's as good as it gets?\r\nAnd you zero in on one of MY posts to exercise your wit on? I'm honored.\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays.","author":"fresca","parent_id":98362,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-31 23:36:53","modified":"2004-03-09 22:02:00","fileurl":""}]}