Saddam Captured Newsconference occuring NOW [Live Thread]

CNN ^ | 12-14-03 | CNN

[bonesmccoy]

CNN anchor now reports news conference due at 4 AM PST/7AM EST

[MEG33]

I don't know..!Onyx will be thrilled.

[znix]

CNN showing the communist party celebrating

[CurlyBill]

All your Saddam are Belong to Us!!!!

[bonesmccoy]

you're welcome... tried my best.. .my fingers were going about as fast as possible.

NBC now showing continuing repeats of the B&W video of Hussein looking like an unkempt bearded win-o

[HarryCaul]

Well, to be honest, if there's a reporting organization anywhere in the world that isn't trying to arrange an itnerview, they don't deserve to be in business. Of course they want an interview. I don't expect them to get one, but nothing wrong with asking.

[AdmSmith]

Oral exam in his mouth was done to check for lethal capsules, and infections.

[aristeides]

Yeah delighted his butt-buddy isn't dead.

Not dead so he can still spill the beans on him. Somehow I doubt if Chirac really is delighted in fact.

[mitchbert]

Yoni, want to bet Chirac wet himself when he heard the news? Saddam's gonna rat him out. Sweet.

[Arpege92]

I'm so happy for the Iraqi's. Hey Iran, you could be celebrating next!!!!

[Arpege92]

LOL

[bonesmccoy]

Hilarious isn't it?

This bugger was the bastard sending anthrax against us.

[TomGuy]

Katie Couric "...that Saddam hopefully escaped to Tikrit..."

Katie won't be perky this morning.

[Taco Consumer]

ABC NEWS: Iraqi Governing Counsil in meeting RIGHT NOW with Saddam Hussein.

[archy]

Yeah I noticed too that still Drudge has no mention of Saddams capture yet

Details here:

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Without a single shot being fired, U.S. military forces captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as he hid in the bottom of a hole in a home near Tikrit, officials announced at a Baghdad press conference.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, announced.

Officials showed a videotape of the former Iraqi dictator and most-wanted figure by the U.S.-led coalition as he was being inspected following his capture. He had a long black-and-grey beard and unkempt hair.

About 600 U.S. troops took part in Operation Red Dawn, said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top American general in Iraq. Two other Iraqis were captured along with Saddam, who was found with $750,000 in U.S. currency, Sanchez said.

Sanchez said he had no idea how long Saddam had been at the Tikrit location and could not say if anyone had stepped forward to claim the multi-million dollar reward for his capture.

"Today is a great day for Iraq and the Iraqi people," Sanchez said.

Saddam is talkative and is being cooperative, Sanchez said. He is being held at an undisclosed location.

A delegation of the Iraqi Governing Council hopes to visit Saddam in captivity later Sunday, a spokesman for the council said.

"With the arrest of Saddam, the source financing terrorists has been destroyed and terrorist attacks will come to an end. Now we can establish a durable stability and security in Iraq," said council member Jalal Talabani.

In Baghdad, residents fired small arms in the air in celebration, and gunfire echoed in neighborhoods across the city. Earlier in the day, rumors of the capture sent people streaming into the streets of Kirkuk, a northern Iraqi city, firing guns in the air in celebration.

"We are celebrating like it's a wedding," said Kirkuk resident Mustapha Sheriff. "We are finally rid of that criminal."

"This is the joy of a lifetime," said Ali Al-Bashiri, another resident. "I am speaking on behalf of all the people that suffered under his rule."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[RobFromGa]

nice job,

this was a great morning to break in my Free Republic coffee mug...

Coffee, Tea, and Liberty bump to Iraq.

[ex-Texan]

Live Video Links here for all major news media.

[maggief]

DU thread:

"BEHAVE DU, people are watching us today...(Better? )

...
I shouldn't have to say this. I feel like I'm the Mama DUer. PLEASE behave today. We have posted things that make democrats look bad. Please, do not post nasty hateful things on this or any other subjects today. If you wanna be nasty go over to Freeperville where you can be with like kind."

[GeronL]

CNN is a joke. The guys on Fox News are visibly giddy =o)

[bonesmccoy]

CNN reporter: As people saw pictures on the TV of Saddam, the people began celebrating, cheering, started calling him a "woman"... "if he was going to go without a fight, he should have surrendered to the Americans months ago".