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.

[rintense]

The troops who captured Saddam will be on FNC live in a few minutes for a press conference.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FN, Greg Palkot with the 4th Infantry Division champions who found Saddam: "Man, we're glad we got him and we're glad we got him before we left." There have been some very strong tips over the months...some strong intelligence finally worked out...rounding up former regime figures, Al Douri shouldn't be too far behind....Kurdish also played a role and helped funnel info to the Coalition...some very, very happy people (up here in Tikrit) right now."

[TomGuy]

John Scott on FoxNews: "Absolute professionalism on the part of our troops. They didn't have to fire a shot."

Great accolades from a news commentator.

[Rome2000]

My point is that I am incredulous that everyone is not in a festive mood over the capture of Saddam.

That bimbette Dana Priest is especially egregious with her facial expressions.

She really is behaving like San Francisco got nuked.

[wizardoz]

Notice the live FOX coverage showing the money Saddam was hiding with? It's American money. Let's face it, folks. The world is ours.

Not that there's anything wrong with that! ;^)

[Timeout]

I just had a deviously delicious thought:

Right about the time the Dims are gearing up their caucuses and primaries.....GWB will put Saddam's trial on live TV! ****GRIN****

[fhayek]

Had to work this morning. Just got in to see the great news. One assumes that Tom Daschle is deeply concerned...

[Uncle Meat]

Did he mention that he was a veteran?

No,but he did talk about the good ol times he had in his Nam bunker,doing power hits of Cambodian Red out of a shotgun barrel with a poster of Ho Chi Min gleaming in the background.

[Bob]

She really is behaving like San Francisco got nuked.

We should be so lucky. Actually, I'd rather see it sink into the bay. (Less fallout down here in Morgan Hill that way.)

[blackie]

We've smoked Saddam out of his spider hole ~ the democrats are sad ~ very sad! :)

[Rome2000]

Gregory (moron son of a connected, media, showbiz NYC wealthy liberal)

So that explains it.

I always wondered why that guy was such a Clymer.

[SauronOfMordor]

Saddam Captured Hiding in Hole Near Tikrit
Sun December 14, 2003 09:48 AM ET

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By Joseph Logan

AD-DAWR, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole near his home town of Tikrit in a major coup for Washington's beleaguered occupation force in Iraq.

Grubby and bearded the 66-year-old dictator was dug out by troops from a cramped hiding pit during a raid on a farm in Ad-Dawr village late Saturday, the jubilant U.S. commander in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez said Sunday.

Gunfire crackled out in celebration across the country as Iraqis greeted a U.S. military video showing their once feared leader, disheveled and sporting a bushy black and gray beard, undergoing a medical examination after seven months on the run.

The arrest is a boon for President Bush after a run of increasingly bloody attacks on U.S. troops and their allies that imperil his campaign for re-election next year. Saddam may also provide intelligence on alleged banned weapons. The former president, who once seemed almost to believe his own claims of invincibility and urged his men to go down fighting the invaders, gave up without a shot being fired, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference in Baghdad.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," a beaming U.S. administrator Paul Bremer said in his first comments to the news conference where the film was shown. "The tyrant is a prisoner."

Cheering Iraqis in the audience shouted "Death to Saddam!"

Leading members of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council said they would put Saddam on trial in Baghdad. He may face the death penalty as he answers for a three-decade reign of terror and for leading his oil-rich nation into three disastrous wars.

"We want Saddam to get what he deserves. I believe he will be sentenced to hundreds of death sentences at a fair trial because he's responsible for all the massacres and crimes in Iraq," said Amar al-Hakim, a senior member of the Shi'ite party the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

NO END TO VIOLENCE

The White House warned, however, that Saddam's capture may not mean an end to violence, which continued hours after he was seized, with a suspected suicide car bombing that left at least 17 dead at a police station in Khalidiyah, west of Baghdad.

U.S. officials say anti-American Muslim militants affiliated to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network have become active in Iraq amid the chaos following Saddam's ousting on April 9.    Continued ...

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

bonesmccoy's live thread, over 1200 comments:

Saddam Captured Newsconference occuring NOW [Live Thread] ^

Celebrating all across FR today!

[wizardoz]

Checking CBS... The Dan looks grim. LOL!

[VOA]

1 posted on 12/14/2003 2:16:57 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy

Jumpin' Jehosephat! (sp?)
Ant this didn't break in Los Angeles (also PST) until about 7:30 AM PST.
For documentary purposes, I got it on KFI 640AM at about 7:25 AM, it broke
on KABC 780AM maybe five minutes later.

Doug McIntyre of KABC took calls after announcing the news. At least Los Angeles/Hollywood
lefties have the faith of their convictions...one caller was already sourly
saying this wouldn't help end the terrorist attacks in Iraq, blah, blah, blah...

But a few of the callers were ecstatic, one was "down" a bit, asking why our troops
didn't just shoot Saddam in order to get rid of the stinker.

One of my biggest belly-laughs?
An ABC radio news reporter said that at his capture, Saddam "...looked like Ted Kaczynski...".

The downside? That some Canadian Mounties/Trooper weren't at the side of the
US (and/or Coalition) troops that DUG Saddam out of his rabbit-hole WITH SHOVELS.

The upside? Just thinking about Vichy France, Germany, the UN, Tom Daschle,
American-troop-morale-deflator Hillary! Rodham Clinton, Howard "Abort-Em-All"
Dean and all the other deeply saddened supports of Saddam.
Cheer up you @$$holes, at least you'll get to visit your friend Saddam in jail,
at least until he meets Texas Justice at the end of a rope!
(OK, he'll get Iraqi Justice...I don't know if they may just put him in a cage
in the middle of a public square in BAghdad or Basra for life.)

[wizardoz]

Right about the time the Dims are gearing up their caucuses and primaries.....GWB will put Saddam's trial on live TV! ****GRIN****

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!

[Rome2000]

The arrest is a boon for President Bush after a run of increasingly bloody attacks on U.S. troops and their allies that imperil his campaign for re-election next year.

So the terrorists and the Democrats are after the same thing, a Democratic President in 2004.

[clintonh8r]

...and about two weeks before the election: Osama's head on a spike!

[Ex-Dem]

A general (I think it's MG Ray Odierno), is speaking live.

[TomGuy]

Saddam and 2 others captured together. [Live conference on how the capture happened.]



Proud of the men and women of the military who made this happen.