SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED

SkyNews ^ | December 14, 2003 | Staff

[Bubba_Leroy]

SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been captured in his home town of Tikrit, according to reports.

There has been no independent verification of the news but Sky New's Foreign Editor Tim Marshall says the source of the news is usually reliable.

The US Defence Department says it has had no confirmation of the claims, which come from Iraqi Kurd leader Jalal Talabani, says the Iran news agency IRNA.

Hundreds of exultant people have taken to the streets of Kirkuk, firing weapons into the air in celebration.

A press conference has been announced for 12pm GMT.

In Baghdad, a spokeswoman for the US-led operation notified reporters that a "very important" announcement will be made at the press conference.

[Arkinsaw]

For the folks over a DU, just for them:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[RobFromGa]

I wonder if this thread from yesterday had anything to do with the basement raid?

4TH ID SOLDIERS CAPTURE FEDAYEEN AND CONFISCATE LARGE WEAPONS CACHE

TIKRIT, Iraq – In an early morning raid in Tikrit on Dec. 11, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment soldiers captured four Fedayeen members and confiscated a significant amount of weapons and ammunition that were hidden throughout the house including under the mattresses of sleeping children and buried in the garden.

[mewzilla]

[Damagro]

Wow. Talk about a good start to the day. I was thinking this would be timed closer to Christmas Day. I'm not one t o look a gift horse in the mouth though. Merry Christmas e veryone.

[mewzilla]

LOL. Great minds think alike.

And some mine will be as good as Snoopy's :)

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

It is all Bush's fault. He's a good president. - Agreed!

[Bob]

Third stanza? You sure don't hear that one too often.

[Maigrey]

Hahahaha No impact on the Iraqi people. Right....

NOT!

[mewzilla]

some=someday

More caffeine....And I'm buyin'!!

[Calvin Locke]

I decided to checkout the shortwave bands.

The BBC had a Cambridge U. professor bemoanimg that the US prefers that Saddam be tried in "retributive" Iraq, rather
than an international tribunal.

I seem to remember the lack of international "concern" of Nicholae Ceaucescu.

[Bob]

Blair has confirmed the capture.

[ChemistCat]

IMAGINE what they would have said if this had happened closer to the election.

Bush knew where he was all along...blah blah...timing is suspicious....it's an election eve stunt....

HAHAHAHAHAHA

...the whole Bush Administration is one long election eve stunt!

I love it I love it I love it.

NOTHING like one success after another to make the DEMS WASTE THEIR TIME AND MONEY!!!!!

[theophilusscribe]

A night raid in Tikrit. US media were widely reporting unconfirmed information that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has been captured in a raid on his hometown of Tikrit.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)

[thesummerwind]

Get in your buy orders for Razor blade stock in first thing on Monday morning. ----Yes, and all you folks living with Democrats in apartment buildings with closed garages ---beware of carbon monoxide!!!!?

[Zeppo]

Wow, Dan Rather looks like they dragged him out of bed and he's still asleep...

[mewzilla]

All the news nets confiming we bagged him. Though some wet blanket on ABC says that good DNA testing takes more time...

8-P

[Chief_Joe]

Ooooooo Yeeeeeeaaahhh! 4^th ID (Steadfast and Loyal). Atta boy, Atta boy, Atta boy, and three cheers! I hope the boys drag him through the streets in hand and leg cuffs: it would be great to see what kind of reaction we get now from the people there. Major congrats -major, major, major congrats 4^th ID.

[knighthawk]

Middle East list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Finalapproach29er]

We need Americans to guard him. Can't let him pull a suicide like Georing and other NAZIS.

[MEG33]

Got the pot going..more caffeine on the way!