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Old 12-14-03, 07:44 AM   #1
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Saddam Caught

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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."

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Old 12-14-03, 08:02 AM   #2
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watchin' it on BBC news 24...

take it Bush n' Blair are heavens angels now..l0l
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Old 12-14-03, 08:07 AM   #3
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he looks like he hasn't showered since the war began
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Old 12-14-03, 08:17 AM   #4
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^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.
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Old 12-14-03, 08:20 AM   #5
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he's been in a spider whole for months
lokks like a right tramp.........
i think they should rape him
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Old 12-14-03, 08:37 AM   #6
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lol

they shud do the first public tourture and execution

live on cnn

b.i wats your aim?
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Old 12-14-03, 08:41 AM   #7
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Aim= PsDetained
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Old 12-14-03, 08:56 AM   #8
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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....
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Old 12-14-03, 08:58 AM   #9
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Oh i just heard they took DNA tests and its really him.
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Old 12-14-03, 09:32 AM   #10
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Thats great.

Where's Osama?
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Old 12-14-03, 09:34 AM   #11
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^prolly living across the street from you^.
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Old 12-14-03, 09:34 AM   #12
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its Osalma* you illiterate fool
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Old 12-14-03, 09:34 AM   #13
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Focker.. I wanted to post it..
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Old 12-14-03, 09:37 AM   #14
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I don't really care if he is Caught or Not
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Go eat sweet and sour chicken.. You illiterate Korean bastard
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