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SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED
SkyNews ^ | December 14, 2003 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aceofspades; ageofliberty; decapitation; husseincaptured; jalaltalabani; pl; saddam; viceisclosed; viceisclosing
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To: Libertina
Reuters just reported that the Baghdad explosion was some accident involving fuel tanks - not an attack.
961 posted on 12/14/2003 9:43:25 AM PST by BCrago66
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"He was living with rats, actually."

You know, you simply cannot make this stuff up!

LoL!

962 posted on 12/14/2003 9:43:50 AM PST by Radix (They say that in the Army, the coffees mighty fine, Looks like muddy water, tastes like turpentine)
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To: BCrago66
LOL Timing was interesting though. However, radio still saying car bomb.
963 posted on 12/14/2003 9:46:10 AM PST by Libertina (FReepers of a feather flock together...isn't life great?)
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To: BCrago66
Reuters just reported that the Baghdad explosion was some accident involving fuel tanks - not an attack.

It sure looked like a car burning to me.

964 posted on 12/14/2003 9:52:09 AM PST by Bob
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To: Timeout
Chris Wallace on Fox just said: "The Mother of all Mugshots!" Ha Ha Ha

Poor Michael Jackson. I guess his mugshot comes in second. ;^)

965 posted on 12/14/2003 9:57:29 AM PST by wizardoz
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To: Bubba_Leroy
HO HO HO!!!............Thanks GWB for a Great gift. American Cowboy gets his man, "dead or alive"


966 posted on 12/14/2003 10:00:33 AM PST by Helms (Liberalism is a faux compassion that condescends at best and subjugates at worse)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Has anybody heard from Hitlery, yet? Or, did the Rangers decide not to pull her out of the hole with Saddam?
967 posted on 12/14/2003 10:02:46 AM PST by mrobison (We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.)
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To: RobFromGa
These DU quotes are hilarious.

Is there some anti-Bush angle to this that we've been missing?

LMFAO.
968 posted on 12/14/2003 10:03:25 AM PST by bdeaner
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To: TomGuy


US forces have not captured Saddam Hussein, no way! This is just Yankee Imperialist propaganda.
Looks like Bush pulled a ACE out of the hole.
969 posted on 12/14/2003 10:04:24 AM PST by SAMWolf (Bush Pulls an Ace out of the hole!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
YEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
970 posted on 12/14/2003 10:05:01 AM PST by freedomcrusader
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To: Timeout
The Mother of all Mugshots! Good one! LOL!
971 posted on 12/14/2003 10:05:39 AM PST by Dec31,1999
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To: Bubba_Leroy
That's what I get for going to be before 2am PST! :-)

AWESOME NEWS!


972 posted on 12/14/2003 10:10:05 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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In order to end all ongoing Iraqi Baathist resistance, may I be the first to propose that like the defeated Gallic King Vercingetorix, Saddam should be stripped naked, taken to his captors' capital in a cage, and executed in a public arena.
973 posted on 12/14/2003 10:12:53 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Timeout
So that's what Al Unibomber Gore would have looked like if he kept letting his beard grow!
974 posted on 12/14/2003 10:13:32 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Libertina
We're saving $ on cable bills, too. Sure do miss that Fox News Channel, though.
975 posted on 12/14/2003 10:22:53 AM PST by Dec31,1999
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Word is that Howard Dean will be making his concession
speech for the 2004 election today to President Bush.
976 posted on 12/14/2003 10:24:04 AM PST by jragan2001
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To: Bubba_Leroy
CNN is spinning this so hard, my head is spinning.

The jerk on the scene in Baghdad who's reporting in to Blitzer just said there's no celebrating in the streets, although "there may be some Iraqis happy about this in the quiet of their homes".

977 posted on 12/14/2003 10:25:07 AM PST by MinuteGal (Florida Freepers! Go to Fla. chapter forum for important announcements on chapter re-organization!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Al Gore should have grown a huge unsightly beard as an
act of embarrassment that he couldn't even carry his
home county, in addition to his home state of Tennessee
in the 2000 election.

ONWARD PRESIDENT BUSH FOR 2004!!!!
978 posted on 12/14/2003 10:27:18 AM PST by jragan2001
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To: MinuteGal
....and CNN still wonders why they keep losing viewership
to the Fox News Channel????????
979 posted on 12/14/2003 10:28:22 AM PST by jragan2001
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To: jragan2001; CounterCounterCulture
The latest article up on National Review....

Al Gore must be thinking life is pretty unfair about now.

Ha Ha Ha, Ho Ho HO!

980 posted on 12/14/2003 10:33:54 AM PST by Timeout
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