![]() The usual process of fertilisation in Iraq carried It was like many other trees ignored (not been fertilised) due to the war. This was the case in the tree near Saddam's hiding place. It will remain yellow for long time until the end The unfertilised dates called (Shees) or unripe dates. The process of ripening by which the dates converted from hard yellow to a brown soft. They explained that the lack of fertilisation hampered The farmers affirmed that plenty of yellow dates exist now and will remain so until the end of March. Asharq Al Awsat newspaper tried to enter the site where Saddam was arrested but prevented from going inside by an American patrol. Reporters have visited Al Door area and met the farmers. Regarding the rumours raised about the unripe dates seen at the site of the arrest of Saddam (please see my article The Unripe Dates, ), some The following text, which constitutes a "refutation" of the above was posted at soldiers demonstrate access to the spider hole used by Saddam Hussein before he was captured last Saturday, on a farm near See picture below (pre-ripened yellow dates, picture taken in mid-December) Journalists at the scene in al-Dawr village confirm that the dates were unseasonably yellow but Iraqis dismiss such arguments." In a country where no one ever trusted their leadership or the media to tell the truth gossip and rumour quickly gain credence among a people in the ".the dates growing in palm trees at the farmhouse where Saddam was arrested were ripening yellow, placing the images to sometime around July. The London Times, (20 December 2003) reviewing the Arabic Press, carried the following analysis of the Yellow dates: Palm tree carried a cluster of pre-ripened yellow dates, which might suggest that Saddam was arrested at least three months earlier, because dates ripen in the summer months when they turn intoĪtwan concludes that the arrest was "a staged show and the place of arrest completely elsewhere." The pictures distributed by the Americans about Saddam's hideout show a palm tree behind the soldier who uncovered the hole where Saddam was hiding. and its mighty propaganda machine are involved in a disinformation campaign that reaches the level of terrorism" to mislead public Posted by Michel Chossudovsky, CRG Editor, 22 December 2003Īccording to Abd Al-Bari Atwan, Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, quoted by Dr. , by Michel Chossudovsky, 22 December 2003, Propaganda and the Capture of Saddam Hussein OSP -which had been established by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz- was behind the media spin and disinformation campaign regarding WMDs in the monthsįor further details on the disinformation and propaganda campaign behind Saddam Hussein's capture, see: War Liaison with the CIA and the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP). However, it should be understood that the release of the official story and the photographic evidence were controlled by the US led Coalition (CPA), most probably in There were cassettes of Arabic songs and some cheap pictures of sheep at sunset and Noah’s Ark crowded with animals.We present to our readers two sides of the "Yellow dates" controversy including the photographic evidence.Īt this stage we reserve our judgment on this matter, pending further investigation. ![]() He had food, of course – tins of cheap luncheon meat and fresh fruit – and I found his last books in a hut nearby: the philosophical works of Ibn Khaldun and the religious – and pro-Shia – doctrines of the Abbasid theorist Imam al-Shafei and a heap of volumes of Arab poetry. This, after all, was where the dreams finally crumbled to dust. Instead of chandeliers, there was just a cheap plastic fan attached to an air vent. And so there I was yesterday, lowering myself into the damp, dark and grey concrete interior of his final retreat, the midget bunker buried beside the Tigris – all of 8ft x 5ft– and as near to an underground prison as any of his victims might imagine. Seven months ago, I sat on his red velvet presidential throne in the greatest of all his marble palaces. There was a kind of satisfaction, lying inside Saddam’s last hole in the earth. This was where the once-feared and mighty Saddam Hussein spent his last days on the run, a poor, makeshift kitchen and a simple cot and cabinet, showing signs of the soldiers’ search.
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