TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Friday, December 26, 2003

Yvonne Ridley writes for Gordon Thomas' Globe-Intel 2003 12 16

Saddam Hussein will be detained for life in a Qatar prison after his showcase trial. Intense behind-the-scenes negotiations, brokered by Britain, will see the former dictator jailed in the tiny Gulf state for security reasons. He was offered exile in Qatar before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, but rejected the offer made by Arab leaders looking for a peaceful solution. Globe-Intel can also reveal how Saddam was:

BETRAYED by those closest to him.
POISONED by food laced with dope.
HANDED over to a leading Kurdish group.
HELD hostage until a deal was cut with the US.
DRUGGED by his Kurdish captors. . .

A senior Qatari source confirmed that talks have already taken place at the highest level; but denied the Iraqi leader was now in the Gulf peninsula where the US Central Command has its war headquarters. An official denial was issued earlier this week from the state's capital in Doha that Saddam was already being held here. This was reinforced by Captain Bruce Frame from US Central Command in Florida who said: "For security reasons we cannot identify where he is at the moment." . . .

Saddam was a prisoner . . . unable to climb out of the spider hole on his own because the polystyrene lid it covered was also sealed down with a carpet and some rubble . . .

Saddam's daughter Raghad said on Tuesday . . . "The man who appeared on television was a drugged Saddam Hussein." . . .

A highly placed Qatari government source told Globe-Intel he expected Saddam's remaining family will move to the state which has a massive US presence across six military bases.

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