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From the Scotland Sunday Herald: When it emerged that the Kurds had captured the Iraqi dictator, the US celebrations evaporated. David Pratt asks whether a secret political trade-off has been engineered. For a story that three weeks ago gripped the... Posted Tue 01/06/2004
Knight Ridder reports that a review of recent attacks and interviews with US and Iraqi officials shows the pace of killing and maiming of American troops hasn't slowed since Saddam's Dec. 13 arrest. In the 14 days prior to Saddam's... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
Quoting a release from US Central Command (CENTCOM). The following information may be used by those papers wishing to chart US casualties for the 14 days prior to and 14 days after Saddam's capture: Nov. 29 - 2 dead, 1... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
A phenomenal piece of work by Rowan Wolf at Correspondences.org compiling dozens of news stories on the Kurdish capture of Hussein. Posted Tue 12/30/2003
An article published Dec. 20 by the independent Kurdish weekly newspaper Hawal made the same claim of PUK responsibility for Saddam Hussein's capture as published the day after in the London Sunday Express. The account in Hawal is evidently based... Posted Tue 12/23/2003
Sources in the Kurdish PUK told a Cairo news agency two days after Saddam Hussein's capture that the dictator's location had come to them from Hussein's second wife. This claim contradicted a report the day before, in which unnamed US... Posted Tue 12/23/2003
The Kurdish PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) was the first to break the news of Saddam Hussein's capture on Dec. 14, some 12 hours before the official US announcement at 3 pm local time in which it took sole credit... Posted Tue 12/23/2003
Full text of the original Dec. 21 Sunday Express story, quoted in recent AFP wire reports, saying Kurdish forces with Jalal Talabani's PUK captured Saddam Hussein, drugged him, and left him in the famous spider hole for US forces to "discover." Currently unavailable anywhere else on the web. Posted Tue 12/23/2003
