Saddam arrested? [edit:YES!!!]

[Enemy Ace]

Ready the gallows.

Additionally, scarring and D.N.A testing has confirmed the identity of the captured man as Saddam Hussien. Tony Blair has, himself, confirmed the capture.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Just heard it roll in on the news down in Auzzieland, as well.

to whoever captured him! I would give you all my copies of Civ, and my entire Ben Folds collection!

:die:

 

[Andu Indorin]

Originally posted by Phantom Lord
IMO - if it's true - Saddam should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity.

I'd agree with that ... Don't think the leadership in Washington is going to go with that option, however.

 

[Enemy Ace]

No need to waste time with a trial. He should taken to a place to be imprisoned until a time when he can be hanged, in downtown Baghdad, publicly.

 

[Gogf]

Hallejula!
[dance]

 

[Gogf]

MSNBC front page story:
http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/3708151/

 

[Andu Indorin]

And, as I wait for the official news conference, and listen to the newscasters asking the stupidest damned questions, I again reminded:

"The arrogence of the press is only surpassed by their ignorance."

(Or is it the other way around?)

 

[Pongui]

International court? What for inadvertantly frightening some people on another continent? Kuwait's been thoroughly settled already so that's no question. Saddam's crimes are against Iraqis, and they alone can judge him.

Next year, in Tikrit ideally.

 

[Andu Indorin]

"Ladies and Gentlemen. We got him."

 

[Cimbri]

Confirmed

 

[nihilistic]

Bremer confirmed it in news conference. This is great!

 

[Enemy Ace]

He looks like a cuddly and warm grandpa.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Originally posted by Drewcifer
I hope we find out what his CFC user name is.

That same thought crossed my mind


The news that Saddam has been captured is a very welcome surprise that has given me a reason to smile this Sunday that will see me cleaning the house and doing two weeks of paperwork in the next 20 hours.

It has been a long time since any good news has come out of Iraq, but this capture of Saddam was one of the vital objectives of the war.

It does leave us a major headache, WTH do we do with him?



Jeez, have you seen his new hairstyle?




P.S Whose forces captured him? SAS? SEALS? Iraqi Police? Canadian

 

[The Chosen One]

US Forces, 4th ID and i believe Task Force 21.

 

[Enemy Ace]

U.S. Army Special Forces.

 

[Mrogreturns]

BBC also reported that Kurdish Special forces were involved.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Originally posted by The Chosen One
US Forces, 4th ID and i believe Task Force 21.

I wonder if that 25 million dollar reward is going to be collected upon or if those forces did it entirely on their own.

 

[The Chosen One]

THey're saying someone reported where he was hiding. Also Bruce Willis also put out $1 million dollars to whoever led to the capture of saddam. some $26 million dollar reward lol

 

[Amenhotep7]

Here's another article from AOL:

TIKRIT, Iraq (Dec. 14) - U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein near his home town of Tikrit in a major coup for Washington's beleaguered occupation force in Iraq.



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"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," the U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer said on Sunday in his first, pithy comments to a Baghdad news conference. Cheers greeted the announcement.

"The tyrant is a prisoner," he said, adding the capture was made in a town near Tikrit on Saturday.

"There were no injuries. Not a single shot was fired," Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. general in Iraq, told the news conference in the Iraqi capital.

He then showed a videotape of a bearded Saddam in detention and undergoing medical checks.

Soldiers tore off a false beard and took samples from the ousted dictator for DNA identity tests after digging down into a cellar during an overnight raid on a house following a tip-off, members of Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council said on Sunday.

After seven months of increasingly bloody attacks on U.S. forces and their allies following Saddam's ousting on April 9, the arrest is a major boon for U.S. President George W. Bush. His campaign for re-election next year has been overshadowed by mounting casualties and wrangling with key allies over Iraq.

It may break the spirit of some of his diehard supporters and ease anxieties of many Iraqis who lived in fear for three decades under a man who led them into three disastrous wars.


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U.S. officials will also hope to extract key intelligence on the alleged weapons programs which formed the public grounds for Bush to go to war in defiance of many U.N. allies. Little evidence of banned weapons has been found.

Saddam, 66, had kept up a stream of belligerent rhetoric from hiding, even after his sons Uday and Qusay were killed by U.S. troops in July.

Already vexed by its failure to find al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Washington blamed Saddam for promoting some of the violence against its forces.

But analysts warned that other groups could go on fighting.

"This has lifted a shadow from the people of Iraq. Saddam will not be returning," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a statement.

Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were identified after comparisons with DNA samples. The sons went down, guns blazing, against overwhelming force, including missiles and aircraft.

Their father was taken alive.

Washington has made Saddam number one -- the "ace of spades" -- on its list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis, and placed a $25 million reward on his head.


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An informer was paid $30 million and given refuge in the United States for turning in Uday and Qusay in Mosul.

Saddam would be put on trial, Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi told Reuters. A tribunal system for Iraqis to try Saddam and fellow Baathist leaders was set up only last week.

"This is good for Iraq. He will be put on trial. Let him face justice," Chalabi, who returned after the invasion from years in U.S. exile, said in Baghdad.

The word came just hours after the latest major attack on Washington's Iraqi allies, with a suspected suicide car bomber killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 at an Iraqi police station in the restive town of Khalidiyah, west of Baghdad.

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In early afternoon, gunfire broke out across the capital as news filtered through that Saddam was in U.S. custody.

U.S. officials had said Saddam had eluded American troops by moving every few hours, probably in disguise and aided by members of his clan in the Sunni Muslim areas around Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

The capture of Saddam is a morale boost for U.S. troops in Iraq, who have been under daily attack from shadowy guerrillas, some of whom they believe may have been directed by the former president from hiding.

U.S. forces, backed by Britain and Australia, toppled Saddam in April.

"His arrest will put an end to military and terrorist attacks and the Iraqi nation will achieve stability," said Amar al-Hakin, a senior member of the Shi'ite political party the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

"We want Saddam to get what he deserves. I believe he will be sentenced to hundreds of death sentences at a fair trial because he's responsible for all the massacres and crimes in Iraq."

But Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London, warned that there were other anti-American groups in Iraq ready to continue attacks.

"There will be a reduction in operations sponsored by former regime loyalists, but this is not the full story because they are not the only group involved," he said.

"For the Americans after the failure to capture Osama bin Laden after so many years, it is a propaganda coup...It's an intelligence prize because they can get information from him about cells working now. And it's a huge victory."

WONDERFUL NEWS! With Saddam Hussein Captured, I'm sure the resistors in Iraq will deter.

This is a mojor victory!

 

[Ossric]

that's good news. But just a question, DNA testing to confirm whether it's really him, that must mean that they had prior DNA samples of the man. How did they do that?