The mystery of the man who hid Saddam Hussein

The mystery of the man who hid Saddam Hussein

 Namik Ala does not want to talk about this, or perhaps longed to that, it is difficult to know. The moment shaking his head to shut up Kckh solid, and then begin to talk as if he does not want to stop. He says - and his eyes Temtlian proud -: «I, who dug a hole», known to the world as «spider hole», which was the room a small underground on a farm Namik and found U.S. forces to Saddam Hussein on December 13 (December 2003).Namik rarely speaks and his brother Qais publicly about the way in which it helped to hide the most wanted fugitives in the world about 9 months in the wake of the invasion led by the United States. But now sipping tea in the restaurant, which opened this modest summer, which is not far from the «hole», ready to tell the story.May be more than enough time, perhaps he asked him a few individuals, but whatever the reason, his body relaxed Namik now long and his shoulders Aerbin on the plastic chair, holding a roll of tobacco and began goes on to talk about hiding the man who knew his family for decades. Said Namik, aged 41 years: «came here and asked us to help him, I agreed. He told us (you may gentleman for families and torture), but our habits of Arab and Islamic law urges us to help us to ask for help ».Saddam Hussein was born in a village near Tikrit, north of this small town located on the banks of the Euphrates River. When the U.S. military was looking for him, there was a conviction in place that will look for shelter among the people of his clan in Tikrit, among groves of palm trees and lush oranges and pears.Namik confirms that he and his brother Qais vulnerable to detention with Saddam Hussein and then spent 6 months in a desperate Abu Ghraib prison. Namik work in the former driver and aide to former President, then spent the last few years as a driver for a taxi, even in the end was able to provide some money to open a restaurant a few weeks ago.Namik said repeatedly during the interview, which lasted two hours: «will not share with you all, one day I will tell everything I know, and perhaps write a book or a movie, but I will not tell you everything», and then began to talk.Namik explained that his family, most likely he and his brother, Qais (who refused to be interviewed), helped in the transfer of Saddam Hussein between several houses in the area since the invasion in March 2003 until being captured. He said that Saddam Hussein did not use the phone, because he knows that the Americans had been wiretapping communications in search of his voice. He said that Saddam Hussein was reading heavy prose and poetry, his writings were confiscated by U.S. forces arrested him.He adds that Namik Saddam Hussein wrote to his wife and daughters, but he had not seen at all. Zaúrah was only two sons, Uday and Qusay - who says Namik that he had prepared for them a secret visit to the farm.Saddam's record a lot of speeches firearms during the period that was hiding in urging his supporters to fight the Americans. He says that Saddam Namik recorded on the recording device is small. To his knowledge that the Americans will analyze his recordings for clues lead them to his hideout, Namik was driving 10 kilometers to the city of Samarra and standing on the side of the road to record the voice traffic, and said: «I want you to feel bewildered Americans».Despite his execution by hanging in 2006 still holds Namik highly of Saddam Hussein, says Namik: «Saddam knows that Saasr and executed one day. Was in the inside know that everything has been lost and it is no longer president ».Namik says he was detained in Abu Ghraib, was interrogated by American soldiers on a daily basis on weapons of mass destruction and hiding places where Saddam's aides. He explained that the room set up where Saddam was dark all the time, bribe the guards and ground water to maintain moisture, and said that American soldiers detained him when he covered his face and was bitten by guard dogs. The process of mock executions and deafening rock music continuously. Said Namik without any trace of humor in his voice deep: «endured torture and dogs, but I could not bear the music».But a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said that military officials could not confirm details of the arrest or detention Namik, because the records of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2003 would be difficult to find. A spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command said that «the majority of the details of the capture of Saddam Hussein is still surrounded by a fence of secrecy».And the transfer of Khalil al-Dulaimi, Saddam's lawyers, the former president in his book, published in 2009 as saying that he was known as Namik family since 1959 and they helped him to hide. In the book, there is a charge for Qais Namik, that is handed Saddam to U.S. forces, but Ala denies this categorically.Namik family turned to the family of similar property in the role, to house them a tribal man still has a lot of love here.Said Col. Mohammed Hassan, of the Iraqi police force stationed in the role: «We consider this act of heroism. This work does not belong to the family alone, but it represents all the citizens of this role because the city was like Saddam ». Hassan said that if the people of the role they hate Saddam, because family Namik was able to live there. He emphasized that family members are treated with great respect because they have worked for years to cooks and fishermen of Saddam Hussein. And the people in this respect the role of the family and appreciate more than ever.Saddam Hussein was buried near the village of Awja. But awareness of Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, popularity enjoyed by the tyrant Saddam ordered him to close the tomb of Saddam to the public so as not to become his tomb to tomb.At the farm where Saddam was captured, was covered «spider hole» Palm at the bottom, a dome of concrete 4 feet long, is not clear to a large extent under the cages filled with parrots and bath.And dogs and chickens roam the land and carp swim in the huge orange pools. In the summer evenings are packed with fruit trees so that the gift of a breeze strong enough to fall fruits such as pears small yellow beads of rain.

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