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Saddam Hussein captured (Dec 15, 2003)

The US army's 4th Infantry Division said Saddam was captured without incident in an underground hole near Tikrit. Two other people were also seized, as well as two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol and $US750,000 ($A1.02 million) in US currency.

US officials said Saddam was taken into custody at 8:26pm local time last night (0426 AEDT Sunday) after a raid on a compound in the town of Ad Dawr, just south of Tikrit in northern Iraq, by US troops backed by a secret squad of Saddam trackers.

Fox News - Saddam Hussein Captured Near Tikrit (12/14/2003)

"He was caught like a rat," said Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno (search) of the 4th Infantry Division at a separate press conference in Tikrit.

FoxNews: Fourth Infantry, Commandos Capture Saddam (12/14/2003)

WASHINGTON — Eight months and four days after the fall of Baghdad, it fell to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division (search) and a secretive team of commandos to pry Saddam Hussein (search) 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.

FoxNews: Military Releases Details of Saddam's Capture (12/15/2003)

ADWAR, Iraq — 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.

All the articles that I could find mentioned the 4th Infantry Division (if they identified any specific unit at all) and other forces, special forces, etc. (That explains why I remembered the Infantry Division from Fort Hood -- even though I was mixed up initially between 1st and 4th.) While I didn't find the specific reference in my search just now, I also distinctly remember a particular soldier as being identified as the soldier that actually found and captured Saddam in the spider hole. When Hussein identified himself, the soldier replied "President Bush sends his regards." I was pretty sure that soldier was a 4th ID soldier from Fort Hood.

[NoDRodee]

Sadam was captured, that’s news to me, based on the news I hear the war was a failure.

[angkor]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/red-dawn.htm

Operation Red Dawn
December 13, 2004

Forces from the 4th Infantry Division, coalition forces and special operations forces captured former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, at approximately 8 p.m. local time December 13, 2003 in a remote farm house near Tikrit, Iraq.

Operation “Red Dawn” was launched after gaining actionable intelligence identifying two likely locations codenamed Objective Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2, near the town of Ad Dwar. The First Brigade Combat team of the 4th ID, in addition to Special Forces from Task Force 121 were assigned the mission to capture or kill Saddam Hussein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dawn

Operation Red Dawn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Red Dawn was the U.S. military operation conducted on 13 December 2003 in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq, near Tikrit, that captured Iraq President Saddam Hussein, ending rumours of his death. The operation was named after the film Red Dawn, (1984) by Captain Geoffrey McMurray.[1] The mission was assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, commanded by Col. James Hickey of the 4th Infantry Division, with joint operations Task Force 121 - an elite and covert joint special operations team.

And the best discussion is here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=WOJAaV5qJy8C&lpg=PA259&dq=%E2%80%9CRed%20Dawn%E2%80%9D%20%22Robin%20Moore%22%20121&pg=PA259

Hunting Down Saddam
By Robin Moore

[angkor]

Here you go.

http://newnews.co.uk/middle_east_photos/saddam_capture_images/saddam_capture_image26.html