Saddam Caught
 

TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have captured Saddam HusseIn in a late night raid in his hometown, according to the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

"Ladies and gentleman, we got him," L. Paul Bremer announced Sunday. The announcement was greeted with cheers from the audience.

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez showed video of Saddam, who had graying hair and a long beard, undergoing a medical examination after his capture.

Several Iraqi journalists stood up and shouted "Death to Saddam" after the video was shown.

Sanchez said the former leader was not injured and has been "talkative and cooperative," after 4th Infantry Division and special operations forces nabbed him at a "rural farmhouse."

"Today is a great day for the Iraqi people and the coalition," Sanchez said.

Not a single shot was fired in "Operation Red Dawn," carried out based on intelligence gathered over several months, Sanchez said.

"This is very good news for the people of Iraq," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a statement Sunday. "It removes the shadow that has been hanging over them for too long of the nightmare of a return to the Saddam regime. This fear is now removed." (Blair reaction)

A senior U.S. official told CNN's Dana Bash in Washington that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told President Bush Saturday afternoon (EST) of the likely capture.

In Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqis flooded the streets, firing guns into the air, singing, dancing and throwing candy into the air -- celebrating the apparent capture of the man who had ruled their lives with terror and repression for more than three decades.

The raid was based on intelligence that Saddam was at a particular location in the area, the officials said.

Video following that raid -- exclusively shot by CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh -- showed a group of U.S.-led coalition soldiers patting each other on the back -- apparently in celebration -- and taking group photos in front of a military vehicle.

The 66-year-old longtime Iraqi leader was number one on the coalition's 55 most wanted list, and his evasion has been a political sore spot for the U.S. administration. (Saddam profile)

The Iraq war began on March 19 when U.S. forces launched a "decapitation attack" aimed at the Iraqi president and other top members of the country's leadership.

Hours later, a defiant Saddam wearing a military uniform appeared on Iraqi television to denounce the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal" and to say his countrymen would be victorious.

At least a dozen audiotapes believed to have been recorded by Saddam, 66, have been released since he was forced out of power by the coalition forces during the Iraq war. The most recent was broadcast in November.

His sons Uday and Qusay -- also on the coalition's most wanted list -- were killed in July, after U.S. forces stormed their hideout in Mosul.


U.S. troops celebrate in Tikrit, after a raid that captured a man believed to be Saddam Hussein.
Initial hopes that their father would soon be found faded in the months following that raid.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, has been dogged by reporters wanting to know the status of the search for Saddam.

"It is difficult to find him," Sanchez said, at a press briefing earlier this month. "Given that I haven't found him killed him or captured him, and I need the Iraqi people's help, and together we will find him, we will capture him, we will kill him."

watchin' it on BBC news 24...

take it Bush n' Blair are heavens angels now..l0l

he looks like he hasn't showered since the war began

^hes been on the run...what do you expect^...

anyway... they gotta decide how and where to try him...and what sentance he'll recieve...Death Penalty most likely.

he's been in a spider whole for months
lokks like a right tramp.........
i think they should rape him

lol

they shud do the first public tourture and execution

live on cnn :)

b.i wats your aim?

Aim= PsDetained

wow...when they gon kill him.

and how do they know thats him anyways...saddam has lots of doubles...he has never once himself actually been in conference or shit like that....

Oh i just heard they took DNA tests and its really him.

Thats great.

Where's Osama?

^prolly living across the street from you^.

its Osalma* you illiterate fool

Focker.. I wanted to post it..

I don't really care if he is Caught or Not

Go eat sweet and sour chicken.. You illiterate Korean bastard :cussing:

Its actually Usame, according to the FBI.

And its Osama everywhere else.

Hoecake.

Bruk is correct. = )

But yeah, i saw this on the news here just now, i was quite shocked at how different he looks with a moustache and his hair messed up ..

Answer to "how do we know its actually Sadam?" :

It doesn't look like him.

^ They've done DNA tests already. They caught him yesterday, announced it today. You dont think they made sure it WAS him before they released he was caught? Of course they did. They dont want to look more stupid than we already know they are.

i wonder what sentence he will get hopefully the death penalty if the US trial him but if the Iraqis trial him hell probabaly get away with what he has done

^ No he wont. They actually dont like him there, and he will most probably be trialled there anyway, but its almost certain he'll have the death penalty.

We should make him listen to a collection of Rb's worse Audios.

^ Lmao! Yeah, someone bust out the link to master blasters amazing audio prowess = )

Give him Master Blaster's Best. Lets torture him first!

Followed up by some Dezyir and C-Section freestyles ..

saddam is captured....and all the democratic presidential candidates can now pack their bags and go home...

If we want to hit him hard, Drop that Peyo!

It was a joke you cunt. He has so many imposters, everyone looks like him...yada yada. :cussing:

failed :(

Word, Bruk tried too hard to be funny ..

they should torcher him, pull off each of his finger nails with a pair of pliers, cut off his dick 1/4 per hour, stuff his balls in his mouth then him him in the head with a hammer, hammer a nail in his head one tap per minute. then make him read newbie battles for 10 hours straight while listening to show tunes.

^ Damn I would hate to be punished under C-sections guidlines...

^Thats why there are no politicians like him.....Fortunate for some, not so great for others.

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I know.. This cat looks straight filthy

I'm glad they caught him though, hopefully they get Osama next cause I'm tired of wondering if they're gonna try another attack. . .

That sand nigga probly kill'd himself.

I cant fucking beleive that they found him in a small 6 foot hole in the ground, surrounded by a thin wall with foam around it and a pipe to breath out of!!!! This is some pure crazy ass shit.....somethings gotta be up. I mean even his guards ran away when they seen the u.s forces coming. They even said that Sadam had a small pistol with him when they found him....i know if i was the #1 most wanted man in the world i would'a let that gun off fo sho. Instead of being found in a small hole in the ground and being dragged out like a lil bitch.

The only thing that im thinking about now is an arterior motive that sadam has. Something has got to be up...like he passed all his power to another man so that the drama and shit can continue even when hes gone. Something big is gonna be pop'n off soon b/c theirs no way that he just gave himself up to the world like that.

:laugh2:

Holy shit lmao^

this sure as hell doesnt mean the war is over things are only gonna get worst