![]() local time Saturday during a raid, dubbed "Operation Red Dawn," on a farm in Adwar, about 10 miles from Tikrit. special forces and soldiers from the Army's 4th Infantry Division and 1st Brigade Combat Team captured Hussein at about 8:30 p.m. "He did not deny any of the crimes he was confronted with having done. "He would not apologize to the Iraqi people," Ahmed Chalabi, a council member and head of the Iraqi National Congress, told the New York Times. He was in good health, officials said, and being interrogated at an undisclosed location in Baghdad, where he was said to be lucid and unrepentant, according to members of the Iraqi Governing Council who visited him Sunday. officials, who said DNA tests confirmed that the man they arrested was indeed Hussein, broadcast a video of the deposed president, with matted hair and an unruly beard, being examined by military doctors. "We are celebrating like it's a wedding," capital resident Mustapha Sheriff told the Associated Press. "Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of Bush's strongest allies in the war.Ĭelebratory gunfire and festive music echoed through Baghdad, where drivers honked their horns and crowds chanted "They got Saddam, they got Saddam" in the same streets occupation forces rolled down eight months ago and where Iraqis toppled a towering statue of the dictator. They called the development a chance to establish peace in Iraq and heal frayed ties between the United States and the international community. That sentiment was echoed by the leaders of many nations - including France and Germany, two of the most vocal opponents of the war. Such men are a direct threat to the American people, and they will be defeated."ĭemocratic candidates for president unanimously cheered Hussein's arrest and called it a great day for Iraqis and the world. "We still face terrorists who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the rise of liberty in the heart of the Middle East. "The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end to violence in Iraq, " he said. Another car bombing in western Baghdad this morning killed or wounded at least 15 people.īush warned there will be further bloodshed. ![]() ![]() officials appealed Sunday to Hussein loyalists to give up their insurgency, a car bomb went off in Khaldiya, a town west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and injuring 33 others. The guerrilla war has stymied the reconstruction of Iraq, undermined public confidence in Bush's policies there and become a central theme in the 2004 presidential election campaign.īut even as U.S. The arrest comes as occupation forces face almost daily attacks from insurgents who have killed more than 190 American soldiers since the president declared an end to major hostilities on May 1. "In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over." "The former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions, " Bush said Sunday in a midday address from the White House. His capture Saturday night, announced by President Bush Sunday, marked a key victory in the Iraq war and for the Bush administration, which hailed Hussein's arrest as the dawning of "a hopeful day" in a nation the dictator ruled for 24 years. (AP Photo/The Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Cole) CAROLYN COLE Show More Show Less 14, 2003, in front of the Iraqi Communist Party Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. EFREM LUKATSKY Show More Show Less 11 of17 Rusul Hamed Khaled, top right, celebrates, with her family, the capture of Saddam Hussien Sunday, Dec. Saddam Hussein, Iraq's most-powerful man for a quarter-century, appears bearded and bedraggled in this TV image shown after he was captured by U.S. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Saddam Hussein, most wanted man in Iraq, appears bearded and disheveled in this TV image shown after he was captured by U.S. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division which is based here arrested Saddam on Saturday in the town of Ad Dwara, just outside Tikrit. ![]() Ray Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division points at US $750,000 seized during the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Sunday, Dec.
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