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7:12 EST. Paul Bremmer confirmed Saddam has been captured and his days of tormenting the Iraqi people are "gone forever." Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, US Commander in Iraq announced Saddam Hussein was captured in "Operation Red Dawn" and was cooperating with coalition forces. 4th ID, 1st Brigade, Raider Brigade, led by Col Jim Hickey led the raid with approximately 600 men. Saddam was found at the bottom of a "spider hole" - six to eight feet deep with just enough space to lie down in. Saddam gave up with no resistence. There was $750,000, two AK47's and a yellow taxi cab...

<p>German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who opposed the U.S.-led war, wrote to George W. Bush saying: "With great happiness I have learnt of the capture of Saddam Hussein. I congratulate you on the successful mission.</p> <p>"Saddam Hussein has brought unspeakable suffering over his own people and the whole region. I hope that with his capture the efforts of the international community to the reconstruction and stabilization of Iraq will be furthered."</p>

<p>HILLA, Iraq -- Just past a cold, cloudy midnight in March 1991, Abdelraheem Ali Moussa -- blindfolded, hands bound -- stumbled onboard a stolen Kuwaiti bus. With 30 men, women and children, he was driven to a field behind Mahaweel Republican Brick Factory, where everyone was shot. The others died. Moussa survived.</p>

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan welcomed news of Saddam Hussein's capture Sunday, but said it was too early to say if it might lead to stepped up efforts to find elusive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The whereabouts of bin Laden, the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, are not known, but Pakistani and Afghan officials have said he may be hiding in rugged border regions. Asked to comment on a U.S. announcement of Saddam's capture near his hometown of Tikrit, Afghan government spokesman Javid Loodin said: "It is positive news. It's a...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago cab driver James John was jarred from his early morning doldrums Sunday by the news on the radio: Saddam Hussein had been captured. "Oh my God," he said to himself as he drove. It was shortly after 4 a.m. CST and the 21-year-old was among the first Americans to hear the news. As many Iraqis celebrated in the streets of Baghdad and other cities, many here shook their heads in approval. "It's a good thing. He was a bad man," John said as he filled his cab's tank at a gas station. Michael Gonzales, 48, of...

Arab Americans in southeastern Mich. celebrate Saddam's capture The Associated Press 12/14/2003, 9:42 a.m. ET DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Alaa Alkhafaji dashed out from behind the counter and turned up the sound on the television. A reporter on Al Jazeera then confirmed what Alkhafaji was just told: Saddam Hussein had been captured in Iraq. Alkhafaji, his eyes still wide with amazement, began dialing the telephone at the Alzawraa Cafe in Dearborn. He wanted to break the news to everybody he knew. Elsewhere in this heavily Arab Detroit suburb, residents took to the streets in celebration as they did eight months...

It didn't take long for reporters hostile to President Bush to begin spinning the news of Saddam Hussein's capture. "The one thing to remember is that, even though we've got Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden is still out there," complained Washington Post reporter Robin Wright on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And in many ways he's far more dangerous than Saddam Hussein was," she added. On the same program, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein suggested that another 9/11 attack could revitalize Democrat hopes of defeating Bush next November. "This election, more than any other I've covered, is out of the hands...

LONDON (AP) — World leaders including the Iraq war's most prominent opponents welcomed Saddam Hussein's capture, saying it brought a long-awaited end to the career of a brutal dictator and could mark the beginning of peace in Iraq. The U.S. military announced that a bearded Saddam was detained without resistance in a hole on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history. "Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace," Prime Minister Tony Blair said. "Saddam is gone from power. He won't...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis at the hometown of Saddam Hussein are in sombre mood after news of his arrest, but U.S. troops in the town are jubilant. While most Iraqis in other parts of Iraq rejoiced after hearing Saddam was arrested by U.S. forces just south of Tikrit, residents of the town near where Saddam was born clearly thought his arrest on Sunday was the result of betrayal and a major blow. "Today is the day that Iraq was defeated not in April," Hamid, a barber, told Reuters in Tikrit. U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam in April and forced him...

Iraqis celebrated the capture of fallen dictator Saddam Hussein in traditional style, blasting away with their favourite weapons pointed to the skies and folk dancing in the streets. As news spread across the country that ex-president Saddam Hussein had been captured alive near his hometown Tikrit, prolonged bursts of gun fire, automatic weapons, pistols and heavier calibres filled the air in Baghdad. "It's a great joy for the Iraqi people because a great dictator has been arrested," interim Governing Council member Mahmud Othman told AFP. In central Fardous Square, people threw old bank notes bearing Saddam's face into the air....

RAMALLAH, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Disbelief and gloom seized many Palestinians on Sunday at news of Saddam Hussein's capture as Israel fired off a telegram of congratulations to Washington. The former Iraqi ruler was a hero to many Palestinians for his stand against Israel and its U.S. ally, as well as for helping families of Palestinians dead in an uprising. For Israel, he was a menace over the horizon who long bankrolled the enemy. "It's a black day in history," said Sadiq Husam, 33, a taxi driver in Ramallah, West Bank seat of the Palestinian Authority. "I am saying so...

The capture of Saddam Hussein is actually bad news for U.S. troops serving in Iraq. That's the bizarre assessment from former Clinton administration counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, who said Sunday morning that the Iraqi dictator's arrest may only exacerbate opposition to U.S. occupation forces. "I don't think it's going to have a near term positive effect on security," Clarke told ABC's "This Week." Ignoring reports that Saddam was bankrolling insurgents in Iraq, Clinton's terrorism czar insisted, "I think it's very likely that these cells [attacking U.S. troops] are fully autonomous, they're spread around the country and they haven't been getting...

Howard Dean: This arbitrary, unilateral capture will provoke more anti-American terror. Why weren't UN forces involved? It only highlights Bush's failure to capture Osama bin Laden.....

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The truth, at last(Filed: 07/12/2003) "The West should thank God that the Iraqi army decided not to fight," Lt Col Dabbagh tells the Telegraph's intrepid Con Coughlin in today's newspaper. "If the army had used these weapons there would have been terrible consequences." The weapons Col Dabbagh was referring to are Saddam Hussein's stocks of chemical and biological warheads. A senior officer at the heart of Saddam's armed forces, the colonel was the conduit of the now-infamous claim in the intelligence dossier which Tony Blair presented to Parliament and to the country: the claim that Saddam had the capacity to...

Oct. 26, 2003 Assad accuses Israel of causing 'regional turbulence' By ASSOCIATED PRESS Syrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday accused Israel of causing "turbulence" in the region and said it was the only country benefiting from the unrest, particularly in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Assad was speaking in Damascus to a visiting Iraqi delegation of political, tribal and religious representatives opposed to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Assad distressed the need to "preserve Iraq's national unity" as a way to end the crisis in that country, according to the official Syrian news agency, SANA. "Israel, which tries to plant...

<p>Bin Laden's al Qaeda has grown since the Iraq war, the International Institute for Strategic Studies says.</p> <p>LONDON, England (Reuters) -- War in Iraq has swollen the ranks of al Qaeda and galvanized the Islamic militant group's will, the International Institute for Strategic Studies says in its annual report.</p>

Oct. 8, 2003 Where are Iraq's weapons? By DANIEL PIPES Suppose for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, WMDs might well still appear, but let's imagine that intelligence estimates were completely wrong about Saddam Hussein having an advanced program for chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles to carry them. What would that imply? US President George W. Bush's Democratic opponents say it renders the decision to go to war a "fraud" or "hyped." But they miss the point, for there was indeed massive and undisputed evidence to...

World Friday, Oct. 3, 2003Annan's Defiance of U.S. Puts Vote on Iraq in Doubt UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's defiance of American plans on Iraq on Friday threw into doubt approval of a U.S.-drafted resolution, with Security Council members expressing deep reservations. Spanish Ambassador Inocencio Arias, who supports the U.S. position, acknowledged at least six of the 15 council members might abstain on a vote on the resolution that seeks to recruit more troops and money. "This would be unacceptable," he told reporters, referring to a drive by Washington for unanimity. A minimum of nine votes...