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Iraq
Saddam Laywer Kidnapped
2005-10-20
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One of Saddam Hussein's lawyers has been kidnapped in Baghdad, it has been reported. The lawyer is part of the former dictator's defence team. Saadoun Janabi was abducted by armed men a day after Saddam's trial for a 1982 massacre of Shi'ites got underway in the capital, sources told AFP news agency.
Posted by:Glavins Glereting2921

#15  Shep UK -- actually, he was holed out after Los Pepes and would have "gone all out" and retaliated even worse than before if his wife and daughter had received safe haven. However, Germany denied them entry and the plane had to return to Columbia, so he remained in hiding until finally the son of the Search Bloc commander FINALLY spotted Escobar through an apartment window; Escobar was either killed in the shootout or executed.

Gotta admit, though, the sight of his little daughter singing "Los Pepes are coming to kill my father, my mother and me" ain't a pretty sight...


I call BS and that it's faked -- the Shias at last check were too politically savvy (or at least following savvy clerics) to risk this; they already didn't trigger a sectarian civil war, why risk the 'pwning' of Saddam for one lawyer?
Posted by: Edward Yee   2005-10-20 22:04  

#14  Shep, I've posted just a headline and link when all the key info. is available with such minimal information -- it saves a little of Fred's bandwidth, which begins to offset all I've used commenting on other peoples' posts. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-10-20 21:55  

#13  If you see Zark on video (new video) I'll donate $25 to rantburg. He hasn't been seen since around mid year, when he was proclaimed dead.
Posted by: 2b   2005-10-20 17:57  

#12  Do you think the'll take monopoly money? We'll tell them it's euro.
Posted by: Ol Dirty American   2005-10-20 17:26  

#11  Shit! Let's start a brownie sale to conjure up a few coins for ransom. Anyone break a dime?
Posted by: Elmising Glolutch1824   2005-10-20 17:15  

#10  Spot-on Barbara. Just another game.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-20 17:07  

#9  Plenty more where he came from.
Posted by: mojo   2005-10-20 17:05  

#8  The judge wouldn't give them the 3-month delay they demanded, so they furnished it themselves.

Even if this is a legitimate kidnapping, by sympathy meter is still busted.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-10-20 16:41  

#7  ' A group calling itself Jaish al-Rashidin (Army of the Pure), claimed the abduction. This group appears for the first time ' from Debka, add salt maybe ?
Posted by: Shep UK   2005-10-20 15:47  

#6  Link goes to as much story as there IS right now.
Posted by: lotp   2005-10-20 15:39  

#5  wow thanks mark that was an interesting read - i admit i know next to nothing about pablo escobar (is he the one found hiding in the hills having gone from worlds biggest villan to nothing kinda like saddam and his sespit hole he was found in) but its very similar it seems,intersting
Posted by: Shep UK   2005-10-20 15:39  

#4  Shep no apologies needed thanks for the heads up.

I wonder if we'll see Zark on video with a nice dull knife again...
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-10-20 15:38  

#3  Los Pepes, anyone?
Posted by: Mark E.   2005-10-20 15:35  

#2  oh sht sorry about that i do apolagise, see someone found about a bit more on AFP, it came on sky news just before i posted it and im not to computer savvy as you may have noticed but i had to say,sorry shan't do it again. about the story, my first thought are pissed off Shias,seems a bit unlike the Kurds but its very very interesting - will the trial still go ahead, could it even be a 'fake' kidnapping to delay the trial? will he appear on t.v??
Posted by: Shep UK   2005-10-20 15:35  

#1  Link goes...where?

And as an aside, I hate the articles where there's only a link and nothing else. Why bother?
Posted by: gromky   2005-10-20 15:18  

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