[bonesmccoy]

Will attempt to do live transcription as service for Free Republic.

[Lead Moderator]

We'll make this the conference's live thread then.

[bonesmccoy]

FNC now reporting that raid was initiated based on local intel. Task Force 21, involving Spec Forces and US Intel Officers, followed up on lead in Tikrit. Hussein was found in a basement. He did not put any significant resistance. Soldiers entered the building, no exchange of fire, they captured him.

They then confirmed by various markings on his body and matched scars on Saddam Hussein.

[RobFromGa]

howlin, can you ping the Live thread list please...

[William McKinley]

Jim Angle reporting he was captured with several millions of US dollars in the basement with him.

Woo hoo!

[kitkat]

Tony Blair just confirmed Saddam's capture.

also, they are checking his scars for confirmation.

He was captured in a cellar. No shots fired. He put up no resistance.

[Taco Consumer]

FOX NEWS: Saddam found in basement, with a grey beard, with 10s to 100s of millions of U.S. dollars!!!

[thoughtomator]

Howard Dean, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton on suicide watch

[witnesstothefall]

The Sunday morning talk shows should be revealing. Bet we see scheduled Rats take a powder rather than eat crow.

[matrix2225]

I am waiting. I haven't slept since 3 in the morning. But I wait for that. Iraq is finally free. God bless 4th ID and all the soldiers. There you go US!

[DeaconRed]

Yippie-KI-Yo

7.62MM

[metesky]

Howard Dean: "What did Bush know and when did he know it?"

Wesley Clark: "I coulda' done that months ago!"

John F@#%#g Kerry: "OH sh!t! Pass the ketchup."

[BurbankKarl]

A soldier with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) uses an arabian scarf to tie the feet of a suspected Fedayeen soldier arrested during a shootout with U.S. soldiers in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, early Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003. One suspected Fedayeen was killed and another arrested in the shootout in Saddam Hussein's volatile hometown.

A hooded and handcuffed Iraqi suspect is guarded by a US soldier from 1-22 Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division after a confrontation in a street 500m from Saddam's 'Birthday Palace', in Tikrit. The raid netted Saddam Hussein according to reports on Sunday.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)

[Yeti]

Great news to wake up to!

[TomGuy]

Celebrations beginning; man firing shots into air.

FoxNews reporting that Reuters is reporting DNA test confirmed.

[Yeti]

Still nothing on Drudge. He's slipping. Or Sleeping.

[Keith in Iowa]

I'm waiting to hear some reaction from any of the 9 DemonRat-president wannabees...

Unofficially, I understand Kerry's first reaction was "F*&k! Ia m so f*&ked!" :0

[TomGuy]

Not sure if this is the group of Coalition Heroes who
made the capture, but they look good anyway [smile]

[areafiftyone]

Fox News Channel just said the Iraqi Governing Council just confirmed that it IS INDEED SADDAM HUSSEIN! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!

[Indie]

FOX: "Howard Dean's campaign has been banked on being against the war in Iraq."
Time to support the country and not your campaigns fools. That egg sure looks good on your face Hitlery and Dean.

[Keith in Iowa]

Wait! This can't be true! Nothing on Drudge yet!

Hehehehehe...