Marines taking snapshots after saddam capture

[GUNWOUNDS]

a picture's worth a thousand words

http://www.kolyana.com/forum/images/users/2423205155.jpg

  ;D

[Seal89999]

Nice... Well he got what was comming to him. A very good picture...

[lowzeewee]

It looks a bit fake...the marine and Saddam's face picture textures and quality look a lot different,and besides,he was awake when his hideout opening was being opened up,carrying his pistol.

[Inoculator9]

I'm torn... looks relatively authentic, but I think the position is not.

[lowzeewee]

The picture background has GREEN GRASS? :D

[Acriku]

Lowzeewee, who says Saddam was sleeping? His eyes are slightly closed, so either he's blinking, he's exhausted from hiding in a hole, or perhaps he's getting accustomed to the light after being in the hole for that long. Either way, there's no indication that he's sleeping in the picture. Also, what would be the motive? There's no underlying political message, and we have pictures of Saddam after the capture, so what could possibly be accomplished by doctoring a picture?

[thomas]

The picture background has GREEN GRASS? :D

um sorry to burst your bubble but there's grass in Iraq, well reeds and such. Irag is in the craddle of life and the tigris and euphrates rivers make the land near them quite fertile, Iraq is 20 or so percent ariable

[Andrew]

arable land: 11.89%

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html

;)

True that it is where civilization started (actually Mesopotamia).

[gryphon]

Don't believe everything in the CIA's world factbook. . according to them . . well. .

major European producer of illicit amphetamine and other synthetic drugs; important gateway for cocaine, heroin, and hashish entering Europe; major source of US-bound ecstasy; large financial sector vulnerable to money laundering

No wonder the whole world thinks we are all drug addicts. . . and the US intelligent agencies have been wrong before.. . :-X

[lowzeewee]

I don't know about Iraqi grass,but for the authenticity of the picture,I have to say,Saddam was fully awake when he was arrested,not sleeping or half-sleeping.

[Vanguard3000]

1)  You weren't there.

2)  As a few people have said already, just because his eyes are closed does not mean he's sleeping.

And I think it's pretty sick that they'd do that.  But that's just me.

[EWS]

I have seen pictures of where Saddam was pulled out of, and I am sure it was all dust and sand......

[Dante]

That picture was used in several newspapers and programs. The face (not Saddam's) was blurred so it might be genuine.

[lowzeewee]

I somehow think the marine's head doesn't seem to be quite right.

[Dante]

That kind of goes without saying.   ;)

[EWS]

No I was talking that I had seen actual pictures of the hole.  And I never saw any greenery at all, it was right next to a damn house for christ sake!

[playerap]

hmm....i kinda feel sry for the guy

[Dante]

You're not the only one.

And that picture's been used in the newspapers, seems accurate enough for me.

[lowzeewee]

Still not convinced... >_>