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Saddam Hussein Has Escaped!

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In a new outrageous twist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein has escaped from prison. The Bush administration, and the US army, in what is a major embarrassment to them, is keeping silent and denying the whole thing. The New York Times Baghdad correspondent is reporting, “It appears that the Bush administration is involved in a major cover-up.” In Washington several Democratic congressmen are calling for an investigation into the escape and the subsequent cover-up.

Since the Abu Ghurayb scandal US army prison guards have become soft and over lenient to compensate for the abuse—even in the small undisclosed prison where Saddam was locked up. Saddam Hussein, the sly fox that he is, took advantage of prison guard laxity and made an outrageous escape.

In December 2003, after American soldiers captured a scraggly and lice infected Saddam Hussein, reporters wrote that Saddam was a, “Broken man.” Then on July 1, in a public court proceeding Hussein stunned the world with a defiant and authoritarian demeanor—he wasn't broken and humbled. Now he has risen to make a daring escape and his whereabouts are unknown.

Because of the Abu Ghurayb prison fiasco the Red Cross and the Red Crescent have been adamant about prison inspections in Iraq. Also the United States military, eager to rectify its image after Abu Ghurayb, has been eager to show international humanitarian organizations that Iraqi detainees are getting good treatment. So Red Cross and Red Crescent officials were perplexed as to why the US would not let inspectors examine Saddam Hussein. “Finally,” said Dr. Ali Muharah, a Red Crescent official based in Cairo, “the US military command in Iraq buckled and allowed me to enter Saddam's prison cell. But alas, no Saddam! A military guard confessed to me that he escaped. He told me that Saddam's cell toilet was plugged up. Saddam begged the guard to let him out to use the guard's toilet. While the guard waited outside the bathroom door Saddam broke a tiny window and squeezed out of it. Outside, in the military compound, Saddam tackled and subdued a soldier. He took off the knocked out GI's military garb and put it on over his orange prison jumpsuit. Then he walked out of the compound unnoticed by anyone! Apparently US military operatives were so occupied looking out for suicide car bombers and insurgents trying to get in the compound that they gave scant attention to anything going out.”

Dr. Muharah continued, “US military officials pleaded with us to keep Saddam's escape secret. They believed they would soon recapture him and wanted to avoid chaos that could erupt if the escape news goes public. But after several days we began to wonder if the US military was bluffing. Perhaps they have tortured Saddam. For this reason we have made public what has happened. I tend to believe Saddam did escape, outrageous as it is. However, we need to come forward with this until it is sure that Saddam Hussein is not languishing in some torture chamber.”

“This will be a major set back to the Bush Administration,” says Vivold Fectorfat, a long time Baghdad BBC corespondent, “Iraqis who once hated Saddam, now will support him. Since the US and the pro US Iraqi government took over Iraq has been filled with turmoil. Iraqis are nostalgically looking back to the days of the Saddam regime. Most Iraqis didn't like Saddam Hussein's regime. However, car bombs weren't blowing up, nor were battles erupting everywhere. The economic situation has not improved, crime is rampant and Iraqis are weary of foreign soldiers. People who were glad to see Hussein gone are now cheering for him.”

The Bush administration is going full speed ahead with a cover-up and so far few newspapers are even picking up the story. Elbert Yahouts, a spokesman for the Kerry presidential campaign said, “The only thing the Bush administration has had success with is covering up and deflecting attention away from their screw ups. No one even remembers the transvestite party that Bush threw in the White House. (Click to read about this.) Also, how is it that after an enormous blunder of not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that the race for president is even close, as pollsters are reporting? One thing they do credit themselves with is getting rid of an evil dictator—and now it looks like they may fail at that also.”

Iraq BBC corespondent Vivold Fectorfat added, “If Saddam does bolster an insurgency the US can find itself in a new quagmire. A civil war may erupt. Now that it is certain there are no weapons of mass destruction US and British forces will not have support. If the insurgency is successful Iraq could end up right back where it was before the US invaded in March 2003, with Saddam Hussein once again in power.”