U.S. Intelligence Officer Reveals Secret Story of Saddam Hussein's Capture

[JJ_BPK]

Looks like this is the season for publishing the dirt.

We have a new hero(self proclaimed) with his story of capturing Saddam.

U.S. Intelligence Officer Reveals Secret Story of Saddam Hussein's Capture
Friday, December 12, 2008, By Jennifer Griffin

WASHINGTON — He is the man who tracked down the Ace of Spades: Saddam Hussein, the top card in the U.S. military's deck of cards, found crouching like a mole in a darkened spider hole under a trap door at the back of a farm in Tikrit.

For the first time since the Army's 4th Infantry Division captured Saddam in a dramatic raid on Dec. 13, 2003, the U.S. intelligence officer who hunted him down has come forward with his story.

Speaking to FOX News, Staff Sgt. Eric Maddox, who still serves as an interrogator for the Department of Defense, described how he bucked what had been the strategy to find Saddam in the first months of the war -- going after the big name players in the defeated government who were on the loose in the hopes that, if caught, they would reveal Saddam's whereabouts.

"I think the entire story of how Saddam was captured was misunderstood." It was an interrogation over four months. I interrogated over 300 people," Maddox said.

Maddox arrived in Iraq in July 2003. He had never interrogated anyone before. He was sent to Tikrit by his commander — known simply by his nickname of BamBam because of the secret nature of his work.

He thought he was going to be there two days, and he had brought one change of clothes — a short-sleeved baby blue oxford shirt. His detainees told him later that insurgents had put a price on his head — describing him only as "the guy in the blue shirt."

Through careful triangulation and the targeted renditions of low-level drivers and bodyguards — about 32 relatively unknown characters, none of whom ever served in prominent positions in Saddam's government — a Special Operations Task Force unit was taken to the farm in Tikrit where Saddam was hiding.

Maddox said he never tortured anyone, mostly because he doesn't think it works.

But he finally got his lucky break. He arrested a driver who, after eight hours of interrogation, revealed the name of the man who held the key to finding Saddam.

"He finally stopped and said, 'You don't get it do you?'


Continueed:

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,466028,00.html

When will it stop???

Found a picture..

[afchic]

As long as there is money in it, it will never stop.

[jwt5]

Hmm.. should be interesting, albeit incorrect. I wasn't there, but my short time in the ACT in '05 granted me the chance to read the real deal about what happened.

Either way it was an impressive story, and those guys that were directly involved (not 4ID) are some bad mofos.

[Pete]

There is one and only one BamBam and he is a member here.

The "BamBam" in the story is but a pale shadow of the original.