I cannot confirm that. I remember that I found out that he had been captured on FreeRepublic.
Me, too. I was posting at an indecent hour and saw the flash traffic, ran to the TV and got to see the breaking-in coverage on CBS, I think it was. I'm one of the few people in town who got to see the press conference live, when the Iraqi journalists finally saw the imagery of El Supremo getting checked for lice and they totally lost it, screaming and yelling in Arabic -- it was tremendous. They finally realized it: they were going to be free. Really, truly free. It was an amazing moment.