[Coop]

No, I think it was two or three days..

No, boxerblues had it right with "hours." It was reported to the biggies (POTUS, SecDef, etc.) as preliminary Saturday evening, hit the 'Net a bit later, and by early Sunday morning it was all over TV as confirmed.

[boxerblues]

thanks Coop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3317429.stm

< snipped > Saddam Hussein found inside, armed with a pistol, and arrested at 2030 local time (1730 GMT) on Saturday - US says he offers no resistance

. We first heard about it on a Sunday Morning

[OXENinFLA]

Humm, for some reason I thought we had him for awhile to confirm it was really him. I was wrong.

Bremer: Ladies and gentlemen. We got him!

Saddam Hussein was captured Saturday, December 13th, at about 8:30 p.m. local in a cellar in the town of Abduar which is about 15 kilometers south of Tikrit.

[sam_paine]

Almost midnight in Baghdad.....