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The heightened security alert in the United States is not related to the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, coalition administrator Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III said here today. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced the change in the national threat level of terrorist attack from elevated (code yellow) to high (code orange) Dec 21. The decision, Ridge said in a prepared statement, was based on "a substantial increase in the volume of threat-related intelligence reports" from the intelligence community. He said, "These credible sources suggest the possibility of attacks against the homeland around the holiday season and beyond."...

No reward for the man who gave up Saddam December 20 2003 at 09:57AM Baghdad - One of Saddam Hussein's top aides turned him over to American forces, according to fresh details on the former Iraqi leader's capture, as the United States administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said he had escaped an assassination bid earlier this month. "He was someone I would call his right arm," said Major Stan Murphy, the head of intelligence for the 4th Infantry Division's First Brigade in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit said on Friday of the man who led to Saddam's capture at a hideout...

Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing Presenter: Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Operations and Daniel Senor, Senior CPA Advisor December 19, 2003 MR. SENOR: Good afternoon. I just have a quick couple of announcements on Ambassador Bremer's schedule, after which General Kimmitt has an opening statement, and then we'll be happy to take your questions. Ambassador Bremer traveled to Basra today with the Iraqi minister of public works, Nisrin Barwari. There they met with the governor of Basra as well as a Governing Council member, Ezzedine Salim. In addition to that meeting, they followed up with a meeting with the...

<p>December 19, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Assassins targeted the top U.S. civilian in Iraq shortly after he visited Saddam Hussein in prison on Sunday - and investigators are probing whether Saddam's spies in the U.S. command aided the attack, sources told The Post. Papers found in Saddam's briefcase when he was captured included a list of his spies working undercover with Americans in Iraqi security forces and in the Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees civilian affairs in the country, ABC News reported.</p>