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| Random Historical Details by Theesourcerer: 5:53am On Jun 16, 2022 |
The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein in his last weeks genuinely grieved for him The Prisoner in His Palace, a new book by Will Bardenwerper, a former infantry officer and Pentagon employee. “I feel like I let him down,” Specialist Adam Rogerson told Bardenwerper. It was as if he had lost a family member. “I almost feel like a murderer, like I killed a guy I was close to.” 1 Like
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| Re: Random Historical Details by Theesourcerer: 5:54am On Jun 16, 2022 |
Saddam loved Dostoevsky and Naguib Mahfouz, and after being captured, he frequently requested reading and writing materials. “You must understand, I am a writer,” he told John Nixon, a CIA interrogator, “And what you are doing by depriving me of pen and paper amounts to human rights abuse!”.
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| Re: Random Historical Details by Theesourcerer: 5:57am On Jun 16, 2022 |
After that, he was handed to some U.S. army soldiers to guard him and those 12 soldiers were called the super twelve. One of those soldiers even called him a caged lion. Over the time they spent with him, Saddam shared many stories and smoked cigars, and it seems that the 13 men became friends.
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| Re: Random Historical Details by Iamcrypto: 7:13am On Jun 16, 2022 |
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| Re: Random Historical Details by bigpicture001: 5:47pm On Jun 16, 2022 |
Reading and waiting |
| Re: Random Historical Details by Foreign231(m): 5:37am On Jun 17, 2022 |
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