But an unconfirmed Jordanian report says it was Saddam's bodyguard who drugged him.
I've been saying he was drugged, haven't I? You know I have. Since the minute I heard the first reports. I was thinking the CIA has had him for quite a while. Maybe not. But maybe.
[General Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Muslit] informed some of his relatives of his plans to betray Saddam and "contacted the Americans through one relative he trusted," the newspaper said.
They agreed on a plan by which Muslit had "to drug the Iraqi president ... to guarantee his capture alive, without giving him a chance to resist or to escape from the trap that was laid out for him," the report said.
The officer "succeeded in drugging Saddam in his hideout," the report added.
There was no independent confirmation of the report.
The US Army has not identified the person who provided the tip-off on Saddam, who was captured on Saturday near his hometown of Tikrit, in northern Iraq.
The following day the commander of the army's 4th Infantry Division responsible for nabbing Saddam said he had been betrayed by a family member close to him.
Friday, December 19, 2003
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