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Old 12-14-2003, 09:21 PM
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Saddam Hussein... CAUGHT!!! 14/12/03

Saddam Hussein in U.S. hands; reportedly in good health, '\'cooperative'\'
14-12-2003, 13:01Saddam Hussein in US handsSaddam Hussein, wearing a fake beard and burying himself in a cellar to hide from U.S. troops, was caught alive near his hometown of Tikrit.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," U.S. top administrator L. Paul Bremer told a news conference Sunday. "The tyrant is a prisoner," Bremer added.

Bremer said that Saddam was captured Saturday at 8:30 p.m. (local time) in a cellar in the town of Adwar, some 10 miles from Tikrit.

Celebratory gunfire broke out in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq. Radio stations played celebratory music and people drove through the streets of the capital, shouting, "They got Saddam! They got Saddam!"

Forces from the 4th Infantry Division along with Special Forces captured Saddam, the U.S. military said. There were no shots fired or injuries in the raid, called "Operation Red Dawn," said Lt. Gen. Richardo Sanchez.

Trapped in the cellar, Saddam dug a hole and buried himself as U.S. soldiers moved into the house where he was hiding, an Iraqi official said Sunday.

"The American soldiers had to use shovels to dig him out," Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi, told The Associated Press.

Qanbar, basing his account on reports from members of the U.S.-led occupation authority, said Saddam had a salt-and-pepper beard when he was captured. Soldiers photographed him, shaved the beard and photographed him again before running DNA tests, he said.

Saddam Hussein is being "cooperative and talkative", Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq told the news conference in Baghdad.

"Saddam Hussein the captive is talkative and being cooperative," he said.

"The medical examination showed he had no injuries and is in good health," added Sanchez. (Albawaba.com)
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Old 12-15-2003, 01:22 AM
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Hopefully they can bag Osama next...
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Old 12-15-2003, 01:36 AM
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I just hope the US know what they're doing & help put IRAQ back to it's feet as PROMISED. So far they came after Saddam & the weapons of mass destruction, and they've only found the Saddam. So what's next?
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Old 12-15-2003, 05:55 AM
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Great news Animal hope they shoot the son of a bitch!!!!


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Old 12-15-2003, 06:03 AM
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the only way theyall be able to kill him is if the trial is held in IRAQ, the UN war crimes is purely for milisevich and his gang and they dont execute, a civil trial in the US would mean hed released so its down to iraq...

Why kill him?? woudnt decades of psychological torture be more painful for him? I dont mean electrodes or anything like that but things like:
Get an Iraqi to pose as a guard to tell him hes going to bust him out in a few months
Fake escape attempts so he thinks its easy to escape
'give' him information to let him escape then pick him up at the fence
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Old 12-15-2003, 06:15 AM
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You make a good point there BB old m8!!!!


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Old 12-15-2003, 09:08 PM
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LOL!!! Yeah BB.... the good ol' cloak & dagger style would do nicely.

Did y'all noticed one thing that's ironic? The whole hunt for Saddam.... kinda anti-climax. The Rat was cornered... but didnt even bother to bite... more like a circus monkey. Very cooperative, talkative & all. If he was really a fighter he would fight to the death... make himself a human time-bomb or something...LOL!!!

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Old 12-15-2003, 09:51 PM
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its about time.. i bet osama is running twice as hard lmao
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Old 12-16-2003, 09:04 AM
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yea they have been looking for this guy for months now.
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Old 12-16-2003, 08:44 PM
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Ladies & Gentlemen: we got him…but what now?? by John Munro
16-12-2003, 08:35

President George W. Bush must be pleased, catching Saddam Hussein the way he did, hiding like “a rat in a hole,” as some gleeful commentators pointed out. Certainly, it was a huge psychological boost for the American-led coalition forces but its significance will only become apparent in the days, possibly weeks, ahead. If attacks on the coalition forces and their Iraqi allies continue to weaken, then there really will be cause for celebration. It will mean that the loyalists of the former regime constituted the hard core of the resistance and that their back has been broken. If the resistance continues, then it will mean that those who are simply angry about the occupation are the main force to be reckoned with. More ominously, it will also suggest that Al Qaeda’s frontline has shifted to Iraq.

Much will depend on the way the Bush administration handles the situation. If it engages in some unseemly triumphal and fails to defer to an Iraqi authority to decide what to do with him, then Arab resentment will grow. That is assuming that no weapons of mass destruction are found, otherwise Saddam Hussein should be handed over to an international authority. If this does not happen and the US drags its feet over open elections, it will appear to Iraqis and Arabs in general that in western eyes, they count for little and can be demeaned and manipulated at will. Already some of my Egyptian friends are in denial: they tell me the man the Americans captured was one of Saddam Hussein’s look-alikes; Saddam would not have given himself up so easily.

The Arab reaction to Saddam Hussein’s capture has been mixed. On the one hand there is satisfaction that a brutal tyrant has been brought to justice; on the other, a sense of humiliation. Once again the Arabs have been reminded how ineffectual they are and worse, incapable of living up to their proud traditions. No wonder they prefer to look back to the days of the caliphate for solace and inspiration. What also rankles is that the American-led coalition has adopted the ham-fisted arrogance of the Israelis to subdue the Iraqi resistance. If the Bush administration were to seize the moment though, and press Israel to make concessions in the interests of a Middle East peace, this would have a dramatic effect on Arab attitudes. The time is propitious. Moderate Israelis and Palestinians are talking to one another and the wider world is listening to them. Prime Minister Sharon seems ready to make some conciliatory gestures. But most important, with Saddam Hussein out of the way, the Israelis can no longer claim they need to adopt an aggressive military posture because they are surrounded by dangerous enemies. The present moment would be ideal for the US to intervene.

Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen. The neo-conservative clique that surrounds President Bush is too busy trying to create a new Iraq in its own image. This means democracy, as long as Iraqis do not stray too far from the vision of Thomas Jefferson and try to install an overtly Islamic government. It would also like to see the implementation of a free market economy, as long as US companies receive preferential treatment. The Bush administration’s decision to award reconstruction contracts only to its friends, suggests that here too the US is going to pursue its own agenda, irrespective of what the Iraqi people may want. In fact, to exclude Russia, France and China from the bidding, the three countries which have perhaps the most extensive, recent experience of working in Iraq, is to demonstrate a political bias that will likely cost the Iraqis (and the American tax-payer) millions of dollars that could have been better spent.

Those of us who have supped at the US-AID trough know how high a percentage of aid money is needlessly spent and how much of it flows back to the US in the form of personnel salaries, goods and services-in fact, as high as 80%, according to some studies. Recent revelations about Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company Haliburton, only confirms what most of us suspected. It has been charging the US government $1.59 a gallon for imported petrol through a Kuwaiti subsidiary, while it could have been imported from Turkey for 98 cents. Anecdotal evidence provided by formerly exiled Iraqi businessmen, eager to participate in Iraq’s reconstruction, also suggests that the prices being charged by Haliburton’s subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, for catering and other kinds of support services for the US military, is more than double what non-American vendors would have agreed to.

Another American company, Bechtel, has by far the biggest share of infrastructure projects in Iraq. It just so happens that the head US-AID, Andrew Natsios, the organization through which the bulk of the reconstruction funds is channeled, used to be head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which was responsible for the controversial $14.8 billion project to build a highway under Boston, at the time Bechtel won the contract. That George Schultz, who is closely associated with Bechtel, the Bush family and the Republican party, has been selected by President George W. Bush to try to persuade countries like Russia, to whom Iraq owes around $8 billion, to either forgive the debt or recycle it, therefore seems strange. Is this yet another blunder or is there a hidden agenda?

Previously, Russia’s LUKOIL was under contract with the Iraqi regime to exploit the vast Querna oil field. This was cancelled by the Iraqi government just prior to the war. Despite President Bush declaring understanding expressed at the St. Petersburg summit earlier this year that he “fully realized that Russia has economic interests in Iraq, as do other countries,” there now appears little chance of the US allowing LUKOIL to get back in the game. However, another Russian oil company, Tyumen Oil Co., in which British Petroleum has a 50% stake, is now being tipped as a likely beneficiary. Closely associated with this company is Iraq’s former under-secretary for oil, Fadhil Chalabi, who just happens to be Ahmed Chalabi’s cousin. It would appear that a deal is in the making.

The whole Iraqi reconstruction effort reeks of cronyism and manipulation and while the Bush administration may argue, as it does, that it is simply working with the best people to get the job done quickly, the underlying message is that the wishes of the Iraqi people seem not to loom large in Washington’s thinking.

Until the Iraqi people begin to feel they are genuinely involved in the governing of their country, such dramatic incidents as the capture of Saddam Hussein, are unlikely to undercut the resistance to the coalition forces. Until Arabs begin to feel they are something other than pawns in a game played by western rules, one should not expect such incidents as the capture of Saddam Hussein to alter the basic dynamics of Arab-western relations.
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Old 12-23-2003, 11:19 AM
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it wasn't as big of news as id hoped =( but it was good this guy was caught, but id prefer finding osama =/ he bothers me more then saddam...
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Old 12-23-2003, 10:00 PM
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you know what "Weekly World News'" Ed Anger call out Saddam Hussein last Apirl, 29, 2003. On page# 17 and said:
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I'm madder then Aladdin with an empty lamp at how you've callously sacrificed the lives of hundreds of brave young soldiers--Iraqi and American--just to keep your worthless hind alive a little longer!

You stinking, cowardly scoundrel, you've been hiding in your hole like a fightened little weasel--While our president (Bush) has the gumption to show his face in public even with all your terrorist buddies gunning for him.
1.) dang he got it right: he was hiding in a hole.
2.) dang he got it right: he was nasty and stinking like hell.(maybe even lice toboot)
3.) dang he got it right: he was a coward after all did not shot one time, at lease his sons had more guts then he did.
4.) dang it got it right: cowardly scoundrel try to con them by saying he is the President of Iraqi like to wheel and deal to stop the war. too bad he got fire from his job. lol
5.) President Bush did show up in public and a plus was in Iraqi (short time).

i don't think much about them junk papers get a cheap luagh out of them some time, and read what Ed Anger has to say. going thru some old new's papers and came across this one Man he hit it on the spot. lol
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