Where are they keeping Sadam?

[Triumph]

Just an informal, speculative thread about where you think they might be keeping Sadam and why. Iraq? The US? Somewhere else?

I don't think he's in Iraq or anywhere in the Middle East. Too volatile a region. If he's in Europe, he's probably in Germany since we have so many military installations there. If they brought him to the US, he could be anywhere. Or he could be at Guantanamo Bay, but I highly doubt it since there is so much media coverage of that place.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Paris? ...to be close to his French lawyer, of course.

 

[LeadMagnet]

he is chained to a radiator in my basement - they are paying me $50 a week to hold him, but the mariens keep eating all my food so I may ask for them to remove him or bring box lunches.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

If I had to make an 'educated' guess, though, I would say either Turkey or Kuwait...but I have no idea, nor do I care...just glad he isn't running the Iraqi's lives anymore, much to the dismay of Ted Kennedy and Hanoi John.

 

[gistech1978]

i wouldnt be suprised if he were on diego garcia.

 

[LeadMagnet]

Originally posted by: gistech1978
i wouldnt be suprised if he were on diego garcia.

That my offical guess too.

 

[outriding]

In a van down by the river.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: outriding
In a van down by the river.

..or perhaps that restaurant where Kerry meets all the foreign leaders who want him to win the election?an undisclosed location in NY.

 

[outriding]

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx

Originally posted by: outriding
In a van down by the river.

..or perhaps that restaurant where Kerry meets all the foreign leaders who want him to win the election?an undisclosed location in NY.

You dont watch SNL much do you ?

 

[biostud]

They just recently moved him from Iraq, I think it was to another Middle East country, Bahrein or something.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have $5 on Qatar.

 

[biostud]

Saddam moved to US base in Qatar
April 7, 2004

By Robert Fisk

The United States has secretly flown Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and imprisoned him under high security in a Gulf Arab state.

After his capture in December, he was initially taken by helicopter to a US aircraft carrier in Gulf waters for extensive interrogation.

After lengthy questioning, he was transferred to an American air base in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, although the emirate's royal family was not even told of his presence.

Amid the bloody and growing insurgency in Iraq, US officials refused to discuss Saddam's place of imprisonment.
Many Iraqis still believe he is in Iraq, possibly at the big American base at Balad, 90km north of Baghdad on the road to Tikrit, Saddam's hometown.


But the increasingly sophisticated guerrilla attacks against the US raised fears that insurgents would try to stage a spectacular prison escape for the former Iraqi dictator, so Qatar was chosen as the safest place to hold him in the Middle East.

Under international law and the Geneva Conventions, it is legal for an occupying power to move a prisoner of war outside the frontiers of the country of which he is a citizen.

This is why the Americans almost immediately made Saddam an official PoW, an act which initially surprised many. - Independent Foreign Service



link

 

[ThePresence]

Area 51.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: outriding

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx

Originally posted by: outriding
In a van down by the river.

..or perhaps that restaurant where Kerry meets all the foreign leaders who want him to win the election?an undisclosed location in NY.

You dont watch SNL much do you ?

I used to, but really don't think the new cast is too funny...they did a skit on this, I assume?

 

[tnitsuj]

In an undisclosed secure location.

 

[outriding]

yes it was with chris farley.

it was really funny.

that skit should be on a "best of chris farley" at the video store.

 

[RigorousT]

Looks like he's still in Iraq somewhere..
Oh.... and happy 67th Saddam..!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saddam Gets Birthday Eve Visit from Red Cross
1 hour, 12 minutes ago
By Tom Perry

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - International Red Cross officials visited Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) at a secret prison in Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday, the eve of his 67th birthday, officials said.

It was the second such visit since the deposed Iraqi leader was captured by U.S. troops in December and a stark contrast to the nationwide festivities ordered on April 28 in previous years during Saddam's rule, when his birthday was a public holiday.

"Today a visit between Saddam Hussein and authorized members of the International Committee of the Red Cross occurred at an undisclosed location," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, a U.S. military spokesman, told a news conference in Baghdad.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva confirmed the visit had taken place and that Saddam was still in Iraq, contrary to occasional speculation.

ect.. ect...
"It was in Iraq, but we never say where."
ect.. ect..

yahoo news link