For Saddam Hussein -- who was just captured!

Why wasn't there a single word on Drudge?

I guess I'll have to poke around to see where it's been reported.....

UPDATE: Hey, looks like SOMEONE beat Drudge!

Heh.

UPDATE: Nice picture too. (Long time without Baath.)

UPDATE: And, speaking of Abu Nidal (who now appears to have trained Muhammad Atta), does anyone remember the reasons given when he was killed on orders of Saddam Hussein?

According to a report in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, Abu Nidal was killed because he refused to train al-Qaeda fighters, who had fled Afghanistan. He also refused to carry out attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the report said.

A U.S. official was quoted as saying that he had "paid the price for not cooperating with Saddam's wishes."

Whatever the case, Karmon said it exposes the nature of the Iraqi regime.

"It proves again the character of the Iraqi regime that even if it was not directly involved, the regime has a lot to hide," Karmon said.

The reason given -- that he "refused to carry out attacks against the U.S." -- sounds like classic disinformation to me.

UPDATE: Thank you, Glenn Reynolds, for kindly linking to this post. Welcome all newcomers to this blog!

I have posted a few more thoughts here.

UPDATE: It now appears that the story that Abu Nidal trained Muhammad Atta was "a fabrication that is contradicted by U.S. law-enforcement records." (Via InstaPundit.)

Well, I still think the suicide story is fishy as hell. I read a biography of Abu Nidal (aka Sabri al Banna) and the man was too much of a disciplined master-terrorist to commit suicide. I don't know what he was doing in Iraq, but I doubt it was fun-in-the-sun -- or even studying Mesopotamian archaeology!