{"id":328,"date":"2003-12-16T00:21:59","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T05:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/saddam_imprisoned_before_captu\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T05:21:59","slug":"saddam_imprisoned_before_captu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/saddam_imprisoned_before_captu\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam: Imprisoned Before “Capture”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took less than one day for the fertile grounds of speculation–talk radio–to come up with alternative theories on Saddam’s capture. One of them is that Saddam was being held by a third party–perhaps in the spider hole–prior to being turned over to U.S. custody. Someone may have caught him earlier and made a deal to turn him over.
\nI have no idea what actually happened leading up to the capture–only the people directly involved do. But you may recall this curious story I linked to a week ago<\/a> (via BuzzFlash<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“LaHood: Hussein’s Capture Imminent<\/a>”
\nU.S. Rep. Ray LaHood held his thumb and forefinger slightly apart and said, “We’re this close” to catching Saddam Hussein.
\nOnce that’s accomplished, Iraqi resistance will fall apart, said the five-term Republican congressman from Peoria who serves on the House Intelligence Committee.
\nA member of The Pantagraph<\/i> editorial board — not really expecting an answer — asked LaHood for more details, saying, “Do you know something we don’t?”
\n“Yes I do,” replied LaHood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder what that was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took less than one day for the fertile grounds of speculation–talk radio–to come up with alternative theories on Saddam’s capture. One of them is that Saddam was being held by a third party–perhaps in the spider hole–prior to being turned over to U.S. custody. Someone may have caught him earlier and made a deal […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}