[SamAdams76]

I'm thinking this photo was Photo-shopped. Hard to believe they would have had a camera on site to document this as they didn't even know it was him until several hours after they dragged him out.

But if the photo is genuine...good job.

[Pest]

I thought there was video of him poking his head out of the spider hole. If they had video, they could surely have a digital camera.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I read an article that did say everything was documented with photographs. This was done, to preserve evidence, if and when it proved to be Saddam. If it hadn't been Saddam, then no one every would have heard about the hole in the ground, let alone seen this picture.

(Remember Jessica Lynch's rescue, that was recorded on film, as it happened.)

[elli1]

Hard to believe they would have had a camera on site to document this as they didn't even know it was him until several hours after they dragged him out.

They did know that it was a HVT mission. In any case, I would think that cameras are a standard part of the SOP documentary arsensal.

[Kevin Curry]

Hard to believe they would have had a camera on site to document this as they didn't even know it was him until several hours after they dragged him out.

They had a pretty good idea it was him. After all, it was Saddam they had been sent to look for. I would imagine there were dozens if not hundreds of photos taken, but the brass have been keeping them back.

I think his hair has a believeable gravity tug in the direction of the ground. But what would I know? If Micheal Rivero were here he'd be pointing out all the visual clues that "prove" the photo was actually taken before 9/11, in the main floor men's room of the Bellagio.

[TruthNtegrity]

They send cameras with every group, from what I've read. Some of them seem to have cameras on their guns, so that they're equipped whatever action they are sent on.

I'm sorry, I could refer you to specific threads on FR but I have to leave the house. But I remember that they had pictures of the capture, taken at the time of finding Saddam in his hidey-hole. It just surprises me that this one, even with the face of the soldier obliterated, was ever released. I wonder if someone sent it home to family, and this is how it came to be published?

TNT

[Muzzle_em]

I'm betting it was photo-shopped, but hoping it wasn't.