Terrorism threat rules out USP Terre Haute as detention site
for Saddam
By Kevin Curtis, THG News
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Harley Lappin has ruled out the United
States Penitentiary Terre Haute as a possible site for housing Saddam Hussein
after his trial until his imminent execution.
USP Terre Haute, best known for the execution for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh, is considered a facility that would be at a high risk for terrorism if
Saddam were to be detained there. This is due to the high number of rednecks
residing in the area.
“We decided to rule out Terre Haute for safety issues,” said Lappin, “There are
so many crazies with deer rifles living in the area that we felt it was not
viable to hold Saddam there. I could give a hoot in hell about Saddam, but I
don’t want to lose a guard because one of the locals tried to take him out from
outside the fence while he is out in the exercise yard.”
There were also concerns that even the prison guards themselves would make life
difficult for Saddam, infringing on his rights as a prisoner of war as defined
by the Geneva Convention. “It is just as well he ain’t coming here,” said USP
Terre Haute guard Dirk Jeffers, “I’d get myself in trouble torturing his sorry
ass. My cousin ain’t been right since Desert Storm. Got some of that Agent
Orange I reckon’. He doesn’t even get disability, so that makes me even more
pissed off at Saddam.”
The Bureau of Prisons picked United States Penitentiary Atwater, a
maximum-security prison outside of Sacramento, California as Saddam’s future
site of detention. He is currently at an undisclosed location somewhere inside
Iraq.
