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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: TexKat
This one just woke up to one of the best mornings I've had in a while!!

HOO-YAH!!

Kennedy, Daschle, Reed, Chafee, Kerry, Xlinton, Byrd, Moore, Sheen, Clooney, Babs...your friggin' crow is served!!

AGAIN!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Life is sweet...the Iraqi's must be estatic today!!
461 posted on 12/14/2003 4:49:08 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow (Criswell - "And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future.")
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
YEEEEHAAAAAW!!!! I may not get to sleep today, I'm so pumped by the news!!

LOL....I love it! They're talking about how the man who lived in gilt-covered palaces was caught at the bottom of a hole!! Poetic justice!!
462 posted on 12/14/2003 4:49:29 AM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Calvin Locke
</i>Fixing italics. Sorry.
463 posted on 12/14/2003 4:49:38 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: aristeides
Gee, I wonder what else is happening in the world?
464 posted on 12/14/2003 4:49:57 AM PST by thesummerwind (like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: lainde
So if your experience is representative, and I'm sure it is--it takes 1.5 times ten to the fifth kilojoules to get through this course! Holy smokes, I THOUGHT I was doing more stress-eating, and now I know! I've only lost four pounds!
465 posted on 12/14/2003 4:50:39 AM PST by ChemistCat (THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: ONE LONG ELECTION-EVE STUNT.)
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Iraqis doing their "happy dance" in the streets
466 posted on 12/14/2003 4:51:47 AM PST by texasflower (in the event of the rapture...the Bush White House will be unmanned!)
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To: texasflower
"Isn't it nice to know that the whole world can see how gently Saddam is being treated?"

Who really gives a rat's @$$ what "the world" sees, much less what it "thinks?"

467 posted on 12/14/2003 4:51:48 AM PST by tracer
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To: Aquinasfan
Fox is now showing celebrations in the square where the statute was pulled down...I hope that the big three networks show the public reactions in their coverage, but I won't hold my breath.
468 posted on 12/14/2003 4:52:12 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: Lazamataz
Saddam is not captured. Never! The infidels will all be slaughtered by Saddam's mighty hand. The stomachs of the unbelievers will be roasted in Hell!

LOL!

Now, Baghdad Bob can come over here and do some stand-up!

469 posted on 12/14/2003 4:52:41 AM PST by thesummerwind (like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Awwwww, da family portrait.


470 posted on 12/14/2003 4:52:43 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Calvin Locke
That, and they probably were listening to the enlightened media opinion of Dubya.

Yeah. Now in the immortal words of Judge Roy Bean, "Let's give him a fair trial and then hang him."

471 posted on 12/14/2003 4:52:56 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: TomGuy
"We got him!"

Tom Dash-hole is very concerned!

472 posted on 12/14/2003 4:54:30 AM PST by thesummerwind (like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: tracer
Gee, I don't know. Maybe the same people who continuously accuse us of mistreatment of prisoners.

My point was really that we are able to act like civilized people, not the villians that the arab world tries to make us out to be.
473 posted on 12/14/2003 4:55:21 AM PST by texasflower (in the event of the rapture...the Bush White House will be unmanned!)
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To: Aquinasfan
Any word yet whether Saddam was speaking French when they got 'im?
474 posted on 12/14/2003 4:55:49 AM PST by Timeout
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Senator Tom Dasshole is deeply saddened.

Howie Dean is going to be releasing a statement that the capture of Saddam was illegal and Senator Kennedy will sue to see Saddam released on grounds he was drunk in the Kennedy compound and not consulted as a drunken Kennedy is supposed to be.

Senator Robert Sheets Byrd burns a cross in honor of Chirac's dear dar friend!
475 posted on 12/14/2003 4:56:04 AM PST by TheStickman
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To: KC Burke
Fox is now showing celebrations in the square where the statute was pulled down...I hope that the big three networks show the public reactions in their coverage, but I won't hold my breath.

Well, well, well. Fox is showing video of dancing in the streets. I did a quick scan of the major networks and it's talking heads looking like their dogs died.

476 posted on 12/14/2003 4:56:17 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Iraqis starting to gather where one of the statues was pulled down



Celebrations breaking out all over Iraq


477 posted on 12/14/2003 4:56:24 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Dallas59
Are the DUers committing suicide en masse?
478 posted on 12/14/2003 4:56:43 AM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: thesummerwind
Let's start a pool: How long before the ACLU demands that Saddam is assigned a lawyer before any further questioning?
479 posted on 12/14/2003 4:56:43 AM PST by Sapper26
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To: KC Burke
Fox is now showing celebrations in the square where the statute was pulled down...I hope that the big three networks show the public reactions in their coverage, but I won't hold my breath.

Well, well, well. Fox is showing video of dancing in the streets. I did a quick scan of the major networks and it's talking heads looking like their dogs died.

480 posted on 12/14/2003 4:57:05 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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