Comments on: Former Marine Says Saddam Capture Staged

By: Nick Danger

Nick Danger — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:16:24 +0000

You jumped the gun on this one, Marine. The only reference to "ex-marine" is in the headline. The alleged marine who was interviewed did NOT use the term, so you shouldn't be skeptical on that basis.

By: Diggers Realm

Diggers Realm — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:15:45 +0000

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By: uril

uril — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:55:12 +0000

The uniforms are not at all Marine. The marine desert camo fatigues have the digitized blocky camo patterns. The troops in the pictures are wearing jackets and pants with the three-color desert camouflage utility uniform patterns. That's used only by Army, Air Force, and Navy.

The boots rather look wrong too -- too cream colored. I thought, but I'm bad on this, Marine desert boots were more brownish.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:26:06 +0000

To what pictures does James refer? The official pictures I have seen show army uniforms.

By: The Black Republican

The Black Republican — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:30:33 +0000

15 minutes in the Blogosphere
So, it's getting close to 5pm, and I decide to open a browser window and see what James Taranto has to say this afternoon. Item #1 is the story of someone claiming to be a former Marine sergeant of Lebanese...

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:26:20 +0000

Well, if you look at the uniforms of the soliders in the photographs at Saddam's capture, they are regulation Marine uniforms and not Army...so one has to wonder if the story has some vaildity.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:56:20 +0000

Now just a minute here. This guy may indeed be full of beans, but the essential elements of the stroy are correct. They must be. Everybody knows it, right. So it's fake, but accurate. That's today's acceptable standard.

By: Gabriel Chapman

Gabriel Chapman — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:35:09 +0000

I actually think I caught onto this bogus story before anyone else, but my site doesn't get any traffic so no one would know. That said, I got a response from UPI after sending them an email with my findings about the fake Marine. They were kind enough to update the story, though I do think it never should have ran in the first place. Email from UPI found here .

By: JackLewis.net

JackLewis.net — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:45:51 +0000

Of course the MSM is going to buy it
Someone pretending to be a Marine is claiming Saddam's arrest was faked. There's lots of coverage at Outside the Beltway,...

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:20:36 +0000

Something else to keep in mind is this. Hardly any Marine uses the term ex-Marine. No such thing exists. You're either a Marine or a former Marine. You don't ever stop being a Marine.

That alone tells me the guy's a fraud.

By: MikeF

MikeF — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:09:24 +0000

While I do believe the military was telling the truth on this, I don't think it'd be too hard for them to stage it if they really wanted to. A 20 man unit is a modest number of people, but they could easily play on them not being able to keep the "truth" consistent and thus the public not believing. There'd also be the "team players" that'd toe the official line knowing it was a lie, just to advance their careers. As I said, I don't buy it either, but with the right guys it'd definitely be workable.

By: Bizblogger

Bizblogger — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:58:07 +0000

Saddam's Capture: Whose Fiction? Is Sgt. Rabeh lying? I don't know, but something doesn't add up here.

By: Wizbang

Wizbang — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:45:38 +0000

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
A former U.S. Marine who allegedly participated in the capture of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated. In this UPI story - Public version of Saddam capture fiction - former Marine Sgt....

By: Last Day of My Life

Last Day of My Life — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:18:52 +0000

Mystery Man Behind Saddam Hussein's Capture Story
Atrios has no idea what to make about about Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh stating that his unit captured Saddam Hussein a day before it was announced by the administration. At first, I thought it confirmed a post I wrote about how the announcement of Hussein...

By: garrett

garrett — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:08:58 +0000

See this story at LGF. The man has some very good tools to bring to this question. It was a load of bull, to put it politely. You guys might want to keep these tools in your toybox.