U.S. Soldier: Hot-Wire Scheme Trapped Uday

[wubbathompson]

TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma soldier stationed in Iraq hot-wired Uday Hussein's (search) Lamborghini sport utility vehicle, military records say, and the soldier goes on to claim his action lured the son of the former Iraqi dictator into a U.S. trap.



But the account from Spc. Jeremy Huhman (search) of Enid, Okla., as passed along by his mother and Oklahoma U.S. Senate candidate Kirk Humphreys (search), differs on key points from the official version of the raid last July that killed Uday, 39, and brother Qusay, 37.

In Huhman's account, his hot-wiring of the expensive Italian vehicle caused a worried Uday to emerge from the villa where he and Qusay were holed up. The Army has said only that troops surrounded the building and stormed it after firing missiles and rockets. No other witnesses saw Uday come outside.

A U.S. Army document that led to a commendation for Huhman says he was asked to fulfill various missions in Iraq "... from hot-wiring Uday Hussein's Lamborghini SUV (search) to generator repair to bringing captured facilities back online."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119363,00.html

That is pretty cool if it is true. IF

[democracy eh]

1. this makes no sense

Why would one of the most wanted men in Iraq, on the run months after the invasion, with a bounty on his head be still driving a Lamborghini SUV? wouldn't that kind of stick out? wouldn't such vehicles be blown up on sight?

[daleo]

2. Wow a Foxnews story about Uday

I wonder if Uday was the one who gave the U.S. military the keys to the "rape room".