Sunday, December 14, 2003
Iraq
Saddam's Capture Gives Bush Huge Boost: "Saddam Hussein's capture lifted a huge political weight from President Bush after months of rising casualties and growing doubts about his handling of Iraq. Around the world, it sent a thundering message of America's resolve to prevail in the war against terrorism. (AP)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Saddam Captured 'Like a Rat' Near Home Town: "U.S. troops captured a bearded,unkempt Saddam Hussein hiding "like a rat" in a hole near hishome town, handing President Bush a major coup after arelentless rise in military casualties in Iraq. (Reuters)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
U.S. captures haggard Saddam in Iraq pit: "Without firing a shot, American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in a dirt pit across a river from one of his former palaces near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency by the ousted dictator's followers."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Leftist Israeli lawmakers visit outposts: "Dovish lawmakers and peace activists visited unauthorized Israeli outposts on Sunday to refute claims they were demolished by the Israeli government under terms of a U.S.-backed peace plan."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqis want Saddam tried in Baghdad: "The interim Iraqi government said Sunday it wants to try Saddam Hussein before a special tribunal, but a human rights group voiced deep concern about the legitimacy of the newly established panel."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqis surprised Saddam didn't fight: "Saddam Hussein should have put up a fight or committed suicide, stunned Iraqis said Sunday after watching images of their fallen leader, haggard and humiliated, in American custody."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
4 U.S. soldiers injured in Kuwait attacks: "Four U.S. soldiers were slightly injured Sunday after their truck convoys came under fire in two separate attacks in Kuwait, a U.S. military spokesman said."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Saddam's fall: From palaces to filthy pit: "A man who lived in sprawling palaces was pulled from a hole in the dirt. A man who challenged the greatest armies in the world was arrested without firing a shot. A man who embezzled billions of dollars and put his image on every Iraqi bank note was found with a single suitcase of cash - bearing the face of an American, Benjamin Franklin."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
New Iraqi Leaders Confront Their Former Dictator: "Saddam Hussein was said to be defiant and unrepentant in a meeting with four members of the Governing Council."
In New York Times: World Special
Car Bomb West of Baghdad Kills at Least 17: "It was the deadliest attack on American-led forces since two police stations near Baghdad were hit with car bombs three weeks ago."
In New York Times: World Special
The Hunt for Bin Laden Is More Complex, Experts Say: "There were more local Iraqi sources who could be recruited than in the area where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding out."
In New York Times: World Special
President Bush's remarks on the Capture of Saddam Hussein: "President Bush: "Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq. It marks the end of the road for him, and for all who bullied and killed in his name. For the Baathist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence, there will be no return to the corrupt power and privilege they once held. For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.""
In Electronic Iraq
Let Us Rejoice at Saddam's Capture: "Now that Saddam has been captured, it may be useful to refresh Western memory on a few things before the media wipes the historical slate clean. Remember when we all started hating Saddam Hussein in 1990? Why didn't we hate him before? Probably because he was gassing Kurds, developing weapons of mass destruction and torturing his own people, but with Western, primarily US money and weaponry. He did the wrong thing in 1990 and threatened US-UK interests by invading Kuwait to solve legitimate longstanding historical grievances, including the ongoing Kuwaiti theft of Iraqi oil. All attempts to resolve the crisis through negotiations were rebuffed by the US, negotiations which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Darren Ell writes this opinion piece for Electronic Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
Samarra-US Military Using Weapons of Mass Deception?: "On November 30th, in Samarra, US military officials reported a raging firefight between US forces and resistance fighters. Reports suggested a large, highly organized ambush on US troops within the city by mujahideen and Fedayin fighters. Occupation forces responded fiercely, killing 54 Iraqis, according to General Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Pace stated; "They attacked and they were killed, so I think it will be instructive to them." The story the people of Samarra are telling about the fight goes something like this: US soldiers were guarding a delivery of money to the bank in Samarra, gunfire was heard in the distance and the jumpy Americans opened fire, riddling the city center with bullets, killing 8 civilians and wounding 50 in the process. Dahr Jamail reports for Electronic Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
"This is the better life?": "Today there was a demonstration that marched over the Tigris River to the CPA, concerning detainees and the plight of many innocents currently jailed by the occupation forces. It was a small demonstration, but the potential for problems with the US military was high due to the fact that it didn't attempt to get a permit from the CPA to march. Nonetheless, it went off without any major problems--only a little harassment and warning by some US soldiers as the procession moved past one of the gates into the CPA compound. Soldiers approached with guns, while those manning the heavy machine guns at the gate kept their guns pointed in the direction of the demonstration."
In Electronic Iraq
Anger in Ramadi: "There was, after all, a welcome in Ramadi. I can't say the rumours that it's dangerous are exaggerated, but my hands were not cut off and wherever I went people gave me chai, invited me in and wanted to talk. It's true there was a constant percussion of gunfire, but Thursday afternoon is peak time for weddings and a lot of firing in the air goes on. We were outside the army base to ask the commander for an explanation about the raid which killed Ibrahim and Sabah Odai and their cousin Mohammed when guns were pointed at us and we were surrounded by an incoming convoy of humvees. They were already "on lock down" when we got there, apparently having some warning of the attack on the other side of the palace which, a couple of minutes later, made the ground quake as I haven't felt since the war and the appointment with Captain Galloway was postponed by implication. Jo Wilding writes from Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
The mood on campus: "We didn't move for twenty minutes. The petrol queues, combined with the usual chaos of intersections, had packed the traffic solidly so that, if you had an inch either end to rock back and forth in, you counted yourself lucky. Passengers got out of cars and passers-by came off pavements to marshal cars onto the pavement, which freed a bit of space in the middle of the jam though another crisis came up in the shape of a heap of bricks and sand further up the alley. Hussam's college, when we finally reached it, is Nahrain University, which used to be Saddam's university. A plinth at the entrance with a ragged stump on top marks his demise. Jo Wilding writes about the experience of a university community."
In Electronic Iraq
Ahmed and Ali: "Ahmed volunteered for the last 15 days of the war as an ambulance driver. He started out trying to bring bodies and injured people to the hospital in his car, but as only one of the hospital's ambulances in use during the later two thirds of war, he and his friend Ali started using a second one instead of the car. "I brought five hundred bodies and many injured people. I brought all of them to Saddam Children's Hospital [part of the Baghdad Medical City] because it was the only one that was still functioning. I never even saw a dead body before and they took me to the morgue and there were 80 bodies there." Jo Wilding writes from Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
The end of resistance?: "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at the implications of Saddam's capture on the future of order in Iraq."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq (UK Edition)
Capture not likely to stop Iraq attacks: "The capture of Saddam Hussein, eight months on the run and found hiding in a hole beneath a two-room mud house near his hometown, was unlikely to destroy the anti-U.S. guerrilla insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Bush says Saddam to face justice: "Saddam Hussein now faces the "justice he denied to millions," President Bush said Sunday, declaring a repressive era in Iraq over but cautioning that attacks on U.S.-led troops would continue."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Baghdad council hears of capture in U.S.: "Four members of Baghdad's city council had just arrived in Colorado to start a tour of U.S. cities and lessons in democracy when the news came in that their country's former dictator had been captured."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
U.S. 4th Infantry celebrate in Tikrit: "Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, who all but missed the invasion of Iraq but have been at the front line of postwar hostilities, spent Sunday afternoon smoking cigars after scoring the allies' biggest triumph since the fall of Baghdad."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Results show Turkish Cypriots deadlocked: "The Turkish Cypriot opposition took a slim lead Sunday in crucial parliamentary elections that will shape the future of divided Cyprus and help define Turkey's relations with the European Union, early election results showed."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Suspicious hole leads soldiers to Saddam: "When darkness fell, the Americans moved into position, 600 of them, from infantrymen to elite special forces. Their target: two houses in this rural village of orange, lemon and palm groves. Someone big was inside, they were told. But when they struck, they found nothing."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Ex-Leader, Found Hiding in Hole, Is Detained Without a Fight: "By EDWARD WONG"
In New York Times: World Special
President Sees 'a Hopeful Day' for Iraqi People: "The president told Iraqis that they need not fear the return of Saddam Hussein and pledged that he will face justice."
In New York Times: World Special
Tony Blair's Statement On The Capture Of Saddam Hussein: "Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Full text: prime minister's statement
I thought it only proper to include some of our greatest ally's speech on the capture of Saddam Hussein. Thank you Tony Blair.
In Command Post: Irak
Iraqi-Americans celebrate Saddam capture in CNN - War in Iraq
The end of resistance?: "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at the implications of Saddam's capture on the future of order in Iraq."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
A tyrant falls...: "... and everybody keeps on spinning. The President took the opportunity to again falsely linkSaddam Hussein to international fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman sunk to his lowest moment of an already spotty career with this extreme example of opportunism: "If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would be in power today, not in prison,? Lieberman told NBC's "Meet the Press." Some of us just left the ABBA party."
In Alternet: War On Iraq
Saddam arrested: "The haggard, disheveled man with a long beard arrested in a farm house in Tikrit bore little resemblance to the image of Saddam Hussein so often seen by the rest of the world. Iraqis celebrated in the streets at the news of their long-time oppresser's capture. There is little doubt that Saddam will be tried by the newly-formed human rights tribunal.
But what is unclear is whether his arrest will stem the rising insurgency as the administration has been wont to claim."
In Alternet: War On Iraq
Bush's statement in full: "The full text of the US president's televised speech following the capture of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
Blair statement in full: "UK prime minister Tony Blair, speaking from Downing Street, gives his reaction to the news of Saddam Hussein's capture"
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
Car bomb at Iraqi police station kills 17: "A suspected suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi police station Sunday near Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 others, hours before the announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture, the U.S. military said."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Interrogators will press Saddam for intel: "Saddam Hussein's interrogators are initially focusing on the former Iraqi president's ties to the guerrilla war, pressing him for intelligence about impending attacks and the locations of resistance leaders, U.S. officials said Sunday."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Close calls preceded U.S. raid for Saddam: "Eight months and four days after the fall of Baghdad, it fell to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division and a secretive team of commandos to pry Saddam Hussein from a hole in the ground far smaller than the craters made by U.S. bombs that missed him on the war's opening night."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
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Saddam's Capture Gives Bush Huge Boost: "Saddam Hussein's capture lifted a huge political weight from President Bush after months of rising casualties and growing doubts about his handling of Iraq. Around the world, it sent a thundering message of America's resolve to prevail in the war against terrorism. (AP)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Saddam Captured 'Like a Rat' Near Home Town: "U.S. troops captured a bearded,unkempt Saddam Hussein hiding "like a rat" in a hole near hishome town, handing President Bush a major coup after arelentless rise in military casualties in Iraq. (Reuters)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
U.S. captures haggard Saddam in Iraq pit: "Without firing a shot, American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in a dirt pit across a river from one of his former palaces near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency by the ousted dictator's followers."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Leftist Israeli lawmakers visit outposts: "Dovish lawmakers and peace activists visited unauthorized Israeli outposts on Sunday to refute claims they were demolished by the Israeli government under terms of a U.S.-backed peace plan."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqis want Saddam tried in Baghdad: "The interim Iraqi government said Sunday it wants to try Saddam Hussein before a special tribunal, but a human rights group voiced deep concern about the legitimacy of the newly established panel."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqis surprised Saddam didn't fight: "Saddam Hussein should have put up a fight or committed suicide, stunned Iraqis said Sunday after watching images of their fallen leader, haggard and humiliated, in American custody."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
4 U.S. soldiers injured in Kuwait attacks: "Four U.S. soldiers were slightly injured Sunday after their truck convoys came under fire in two separate attacks in Kuwait, a U.S. military spokesman said."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Saddam's fall: From palaces to filthy pit: "A man who lived in sprawling palaces was pulled from a hole in the dirt. A man who challenged the greatest armies in the world was arrested without firing a shot. A man who embezzled billions of dollars and put his image on every Iraqi bank note was found with a single suitcase of cash - bearing the face of an American, Benjamin Franklin."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
New Iraqi Leaders Confront Their Former Dictator: "Saddam Hussein was said to be defiant and unrepentant in a meeting with four members of the Governing Council."
In New York Times: World Special
Car Bomb West of Baghdad Kills at Least 17: "It was the deadliest attack on American-led forces since two police stations near Baghdad were hit with car bombs three weeks ago."
In New York Times: World Special
The Hunt for Bin Laden Is More Complex, Experts Say: "There were more local Iraqi sources who could be recruited than in the area where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding out."
In New York Times: World Special
President Bush's remarks on the Capture of Saddam Hussein: "President Bush: "Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq. It marks the end of the road for him, and for all who bullied and killed in his name. For the Baathist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence, there will be no return to the corrupt power and privilege they once held. For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.""
In Electronic Iraq
Let Us Rejoice at Saddam's Capture: "Now that Saddam has been captured, it may be useful to refresh Western memory on a few things before the media wipes the historical slate clean. Remember when we all started hating Saddam Hussein in 1990? Why didn't we hate him before? Probably because he was gassing Kurds, developing weapons of mass destruction and torturing his own people, but with Western, primarily US money and weaponry. He did the wrong thing in 1990 and threatened US-UK interests by invading Kuwait to solve legitimate longstanding historical grievances, including the ongoing Kuwaiti theft of Iraqi oil. All attempts to resolve the crisis through negotiations were rebuffed by the US, negotiations which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Darren Ell writes this opinion piece for Electronic Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
Samarra-US Military Using Weapons of Mass Deception?: "On November 30th, in Samarra, US military officials reported a raging firefight between US forces and resistance fighters. Reports suggested a large, highly organized ambush on US troops within the city by mujahideen and Fedayin fighters. Occupation forces responded fiercely, killing 54 Iraqis, according to General Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Pace stated; "They attacked and they were killed, so I think it will be instructive to them." The story the people of Samarra are telling about the fight goes something like this: US soldiers were guarding a delivery of money to the bank in Samarra, gunfire was heard in the distance and the jumpy Americans opened fire, riddling the city center with bullets, killing 8 civilians and wounding 50 in the process. Dahr Jamail reports for Electronic Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
"This is the better life?": "Today there was a demonstration that marched over the Tigris River to the CPA, concerning detainees and the plight of many innocents currently jailed by the occupation forces. It was a small demonstration, but the potential for problems with the US military was high due to the fact that it didn't attempt to get a permit from the CPA to march. Nonetheless, it went off without any major problems--only a little harassment and warning by some US soldiers as the procession moved past one of the gates into the CPA compound. Soldiers approached with guns, while those manning the heavy machine guns at the gate kept their guns pointed in the direction of the demonstration."
In Electronic Iraq
Anger in Ramadi: "There was, after all, a welcome in Ramadi. I can't say the rumours that it's dangerous are exaggerated, but my hands were not cut off and wherever I went people gave me chai, invited me in and wanted to talk. It's true there was a constant percussion of gunfire, but Thursday afternoon is peak time for weddings and a lot of firing in the air goes on. We were outside the army base to ask the commander for an explanation about the raid which killed Ibrahim and Sabah Odai and their cousin Mohammed when guns were pointed at us and we were surrounded by an incoming convoy of humvees. They were already "on lock down" when we got there, apparently having some warning of the attack on the other side of the palace which, a couple of minutes later, made the ground quake as I haven't felt since the war and the appointment with Captain Galloway was postponed by implication. Jo Wilding writes from Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
The mood on campus: "We didn't move for twenty minutes. The petrol queues, combined with the usual chaos of intersections, had packed the traffic solidly so that, if you had an inch either end to rock back and forth in, you counted yourself lucky. Passengers got out of cars and passers-by came off pavements to marshal cars onto the pavement, which freed a bit of space in the middle of the jam though another crisis came up in the shape of a heap of bricks and sand further up the alley. Hussam's college, when we finally reached it, is Nahrain University, which used to be Saddam's university. A plinth at the entrance with a ragged stump on top marks his demise. Jo Wilding writes about the experience of a university community."
In Electronic Iraq
Ahmed and Ali: "Ahmed volunteered for the last 15 days of the war as an ambulance driver. He started out trying to bring bodies and injured people to the hospital in his car, but as only one of the hospital's ambulances in use during the later two thirds of war, he and his friend Ali started using a second one instead of the car. "I brought five hundred bodies and many injured people. I brought all of them to Saddam Children's Hospital [part of the Baghdad Medical City] because it was the only one that was still functioning. I never even saw a dead body before and they took me to the morgue and there were 80 bodies there." Jo Wilding writes from Iraq."
In Electronic Iraq
The end of resistance?: "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at the implications of Saddam's capture on the future of order in Iraq."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq (UK Edition)
Capture not likely to stop Iraq attacks: "The capture of Saddam Hussein, eight months on the run and found hiding in a hole beneath a two-room mud house near his hometown, was unlikely to destroy the anti-U.S. guerrilla insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Bush says Saddam to face justice: "Saddam Hussein now faces the "justice he denied to millions," President Bush said Sunday, declaring a repressive era in Iraq over but cautioning that attacks on U.S.-led troops would continue."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Baghdad council hears of capture in U.S.: "Four members of Baghdad's city council had just arrived in Colorado to start a tour of U.S. cities and lessons in democracy when the news came in that their country's former dictator had been captured."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
U.S. 4th Infantry celebrate in Tikrit: "Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, who all but missed the invasion of Iraq but have been at the front line of postwar hostilities, spent Sunday afternoon smoking cigars after scoring the allies' biggest triumph since the fall of Baghdad."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Results show Turkish Cypriots deadlocked: "The Turkish Cypriot opposition took a slim lead Sunday in crucial parliamentary elections that will shape the future of divided Cyprus and help define Turkey's relations with the European Union, early election results showed."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Suspicious hole leads soldiers to Saddam: "When darkness fell, the Americans moved into position, 600 of them, from infantrymen to elite special forces. Their target: two houses in this rural village of orange, lemon and palm groves. Someone big was inside, they were told. But when they struck, they found nothing."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Ex-Leader, Found Hiding in Hole, Is Detained Without a Fight: "By EDWARD WONG"
In New York Times: World Special
President Sees 'a Hopeful Day' for Iraqi People: "The president told Iraqis that they need not fear the return of Saddam Hussein and pledged that he will face justice."
In New York Times: World Special
Tony Blair's Statement On The Capture Of Saddam Hussein: "Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Full text: prime minister's statement
I thought it only proper to include some of our greatest ally's speech on the capture of Saddam Hussein. Thank you Tony Blair.
Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about reconciliation and peace between all the people in Iraq."
Saddam is gone from power. He will not be coming back. That the Iraqi people now know, and it is they who will decide his future.
And in Iraq today we work hard, the coalition forces from 30 different nations and Iraqis who love their country and who work hard with us to rebuild Iraq to nurture its wealth for all its people.
In the timetable we have established, power will be handed over to the Iraqis to run Iraq as a sovereign, independent state, based on the principles of justice, democracy and the rule of law.
[....]
The rebirth of Iraq is the death of their attempt to sell the lie that we are fighting Muslims. Muslims were Saddam's victims. Muslims, today in Iraq, the beneficiaries of his demise.
Let's remember all those Iraqis who died under Saddam. The remains of 400,000 human beings already found in mass graves.
So this is a time for celebration, but it is also a time to look forward, to unify and to reconcile.
Our thanks go to the coalition forces and the intelligence services who brought about Saddam's capture. Once again, they have proved their professionalism, their courage, and their commitment.
In Command Post: Irak
Iraqi-Americans celebrate Saddam capture in CNN - War in Iraq
The end of resistance?: "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at the implications of Saddam's capture on the future of order in Iraq."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
A tyrant falls...: "... and everybody keeps on spinning. The President took the opportunity to again falsely linkSaddam Hussein to international fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman sunk to his lowest moment of an already spotty career with this extreme example of opportunism: "If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would be in power today, not in prison,? Lieberman told NBC's "Meet the Press." Some of us just left the ABBA party."
In Alternet: War On Iraq
Saddam arrested: "The haggard, disheveled man with a long beard arrested in a farm house in Tikrit bore little resemblance to the image of Saddam Hussein so often seen by the rest of the world. Iraqis celebrated in the streets at the news of their long-time oppresser's capture. There is little doubt that Saddam will be tried by the newly-formed human rights tribunal.
But what is unclear is whether his arrest will stem the rising insurgency as the administration has been wont to claim."
In Alternet: War On Iraq
Bush's statement in full: "The full text of the US president's televised speech following the capture of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
Blair statement in full: "UK prime minister Tony Blair, speaking from Downing Street, gives his reaction to the news of Saddam Hussein's capture"
In BBC: Conflict with Iraq
Car bomb at Iraqi police station kills 17: "A suspected suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi police station Sunday near Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 others, hours before the announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture, the U.S. military said."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Interrogators will press Saddam for intel: "Saddam Hussein's interrogators are initially focusing on the former Iraqi president's ties to the guerrilla war, pressing him for intelligence about impending attacks and the locations of resistance leaders, U.S. officials said Sunday."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Close calls preceded U.S. raid for Saddam: "Eight months and four days after the fall of Baghdad, it fell to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division and a secretive team of commandos to pry Saddam Hussein from a hole in the ground far smaller than the craters made by U.S. bombs that missed him on the war's opening night."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
