Saddam is not captured. Never!
The infidels will all be slaughtered by Saddam's mighty hand.
The stomachs of the unbelievers will be roasted in Hell!
Posted on 12/14/2003 2:16:57 AM PST by 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.
By The Associated Press
A glance at the life of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein:
April 28, 1937 — Born in village near desert town of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
1957 — Joins underground Baath Socialist Party.
1958 — Arrested for killing his brother-in-law, a Communist, spends six months in prison.
Oct. 7, 1959 — On Baath assassination team that ambushes Iraqi strongman Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem in Baghdad, wounding him. Saddam, wounded in leg, flees to Syria then Egypt.
Feb. 8, 1963 — Returns from Egypt after Baath takes part in coup that overthrows and kills Kassem. Baath ousted by military in November.
July 17, 1968 — Baathists and army officers overthrow regime.
July 30, 1968 — Takes charge of internal security after Baath ousts erstwhile allies and authority passes to Revolutionary Command Council under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam's cousin.
July 16, 1979 — Takes over as president from al-Bakr, launches massive purge of Baath.
Sept. 22, 1980 — Sends forces into Iran; war last eight years.
March 28, 1988 — Uses chemical weapons against Kurdish town of Halabja, killing estimated 5,000 civilians.
Aug. 2, 1990 — Invades Kuwait.
Jan. 17, 1991 — Attacked by U.S.-led coalition; Kuwait liberated in a month.
March, 1991 — Crushes Shiite revolt in south and Kurd revolt in north.
April 17, 1991 — Complying with U.N. Resolution 687, starts providing information on weapons of mass destruction, but accused of cheating.
Feb. 20, 1996 — Orders killing of two sons-in-law who in 1995 defected to Jordan and had just returned to Baghdad after receiving guarantees of safety.
Dec. 16, 1998 — Weapons inspectors withdrawn from Iraq. Hours later, four days of U.S.-British air and missile strikes begin as punishment for lack of cooperation.
Nov. 8, 2002 — Threatened with "serious consequences" if he does not disarm in U.N. Security Council resolution.
Nov. 27, 2002 — Allows U.N. experts to begin work in Iraq for first time since 1998.
Dec. 7, 2002 — Delivers to United Nations declaration denying Iraq has weapons of mass destruction; later, United States says declaration is untruthful and United Nations says it is incomplete.
March 1 — United Arab Emirates, at an Arab League summit, becomes first Arab nation to propose publicly that Saddam step down.
March 7 — United States, Britain and Spain propose ordering Saddam to give up banned weapons by March 17 or face war; other nations led by France on polarized U.N. Security Council oppose any new resolution that would authorize military action.
March 17 — United States, Britain and Spain declare time for diplomacy over, withdraw proposed resolution. President Bush gives Saddam 48 hours to leave Iraq.
March 18 — Iraq's leadership rejects Bush's ultimatum.
March 20 — U.S. forces open war with military strike on target near Baghdad aimed at Iraq's leadership.
April 9 — Jubilant crowds greet U.S. troops in Baghdad, go on looting rampages, topple 40-foot statue of Saddam.
July 22 — Saddam's sons, Qusai and Odai, killed in gunbattle with U.S. troops.
July 31 — Two of Saddam's daughters, Raghad and Rana, and their nine children are given asylum by Jordan's King Abdullah II.
Sept. 5 — Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno of the 4th Infantry Division says his troops have captured several of Saddam's former bodyguards in the Tikrit area in the past month and may be closing in on the deposed Iraqi dictator.
Nov. 16 — The last of nine tapes attributed to Saddam Hussein since he was removed from power is released. It tells Iraqis to step up their resistance to the U.S.-led occupation, saying the United States and its allies misjudged the difficulty of occupying Iraq.
Dec. 14 — Saddam is captured in a town outside Tikrit, officials say.
And a 'Dirtbag' in Chappaqua ........having a BAD DAY.
FWIW (arguably nothing), I am about the call the Capital Hill orifices of Kennedy, Daschle, Klingon, etc., etc. to express my "appreciation" for the all the support they have given to the efforts of our much-maligned President and our warriros in bringing to pass the capture of this cowardly, heinous piece of $#!t who fittingly had buried himself in the soil!!
Ditto to the Nine Midgets vying for the Demoncraptic Reich's nomination for president. And let's not forget Dan Rather and all of the other vile bastards who infest our airwaves and print media. Likewise the whores among the glitterati who have made their fetid fortunes by selling their movies and music to the laughable suckers and fools who elected the Anti-Christ to two (count 'em, two!!) terms of office as "our president."
They've all been kind enough to excrete for the record their names on the wrong side of the fence and indeed on the graves and doorsteps of American warriors, dead and living.
So much for all the lies, venom, and bluster about this "fallen" Nation botching the war, which, as we all know,was "only about about oil." Eat your hearts out, you seditious sodomizers of camels, who have undeserved and malignant access to the public ear.
And, likewise, you Marxist bastards who lead and variously populate the parade of already vanquished nations led by France and Germany, eat out whatever passes for hearts in your walking corpses.
Americans, and indeed, people of good will around the world, will rub your faces in this and never will permit yo to forget it -- with the help of the likes of the much maligned Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Savage, etc. Now do the right thing, you bastards, and leave the country, as many of you have "threatened" to do.
Or better yet, carry on the tradition of the arrogant henchmen of the Japanese emperor after their ignoble defeat in WWII.
If you have the courage only to do so, please follow through with an ironic yet approrpiate flourish of symbolism -- by using the same brand of box cutters used by other the vile bastards and wounded this great Nation and its people on what started out as a beautiful autumn day in 2001.
Sic Semper Tyranus!!!!
At least Fox will replay this.
Upon capture..."he was a tired man." "Presented a cooperative posture." "A man resigned to his fate." - Gen. Sanchez.
Fast work, eh, xzins! (^:
Stupid is as stupid does. That, and they probably were listening to the enlightened media opinion of Dubya.
But that's the same thing as being stupid.
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