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Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been arrested in Iraq, according to unconfirmed reports. He was detained in his ancestral home town of Tikrit, Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said on the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The US Defence Department said it had no confirmation of the report. Saddam Hussein is the most wanted man on the list issued by US authorities but has not been seen since Baghdad fell to US forces in April. Intensive search A spokeswoman for US-led coalition forces in Baghdad said that a "very important" announcement would be made at a news conference at...

Saddam Captured Alive, Iraq Official Says 4 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has been captured alive in his hometown of Tikrit, a member of the U.S.-appointed Governing Council said Sunday. Council member Dara Noor al-Din told The Associated Press that the council was informed of the former dictator's capture in a telephone call from L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator for Iraq (news - web sites). "Bremer has confirmed to the Governing Council that Saddam was captured in Tikrit," Noor al-Din said. "He spoke on the phone to several members, including Ahmad Chalabi." Chalabi...

SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been captured in his home town of Tikrit, according to reports. There has been no independent verification of the news but Sky New's Foreign Editor Tim Marshall says the source of the news is usually reliable. The US Defence Department says it has had no confirmation of the claims, which come from Iraqi Kurd leader Jalal Talabani, says the Iran news agency IRNA. Hundreds of exultant people have taken to the streets of Kirkuk, firing weapons into the air in celebration. A press conference has been announced for 12pm GMT. In...

Just heard Sadidhisownson has been captured!!!Nothing further yet............

Iraqi Kurdish ruler: Saddam Hussein captured in Tikrit (Sky News)

Unconfirmed source - Iranian News Source quoting Kurdish news

<p>December 11, 2003 -- Iraq's new government established a special tribunal yesterday to try Saddam Hussein in absentia for crimes against humanity - if he is not captured or killed first.</p> <p>Calling it a great achievement and a historic event in Iraq's history, members of the Governing Council said the tribunal would try Saddam and his key loyalists and associates, many of whom are in U.S. custody, for genocide and war crimes that date back to July 17, 1968.</p>

US closing in on Saddam man 06/12/2003 17:04 - (SA) Baghdad - US troops acting on a tip about one of the wives of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two Izzat Ibrahim on Saturday detained the brother of a security guard from Ibrahim's office. The detention was the latest step in a massive country-wide manhunt for Ibrahim, who has a $10m bounty on his head. Troops took away the man, whose name was not immediately available, after they raided a house in southeast Baghdad on Saturday afternoon. "The other brother, who is not here, worked as security in the office that...

LaHood: Hussein's capture imminent Pantagraph Staff Advertisement BLOOMINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood held his thumb and forefinger slightly apart and said, "We're this close" to catching Saddam Hussein. Once that's accomplished, Iraqi resistance will fall apart, said the five-term Republican congressman from Peoria who serves on the House Intelligence Committee. A member of The Pantagraph editorial board -- not really expecting an answer -- asked LaHood for more details, saying, "Do you know something we don't?" "Yes I do," replied LaHood. LaHood spent an hour at the newspaper Monday, discussing the war on terror, the 2004 elections, Central Illinois'...

LaHood: Hussein's capture imminent Pantagraph Staff BLOOMINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood held his thumb and forefinger slightly apart and said, "We're this close" to catching Saddam Hussein. Once that's accomplished, Iraqi resistance will fall apart, said the five-term Republican congressman from Peoria who serves on the House Intelligence Committee. A member of The Pantagraph editorial board -- not really expecting an answer -- asked LaHood for more details, saying, "Do you know something we don't?" "Yes I do," replied LaHood. LaHood spent an hour at the newspaper Monday, discussing the war on terror, the 2004 elections, Central Illinois' regional...

Rumsfeld Says Saddam Like a Needle in a Haystack Thu November 27, 2003 07:08 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - Trying to find Saddam Hussein is like looking for a needle in a haystack, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview with a French magazine. But the ousted dictator is too busy hiding to be behind the deadly attacks against U.S. troops and international organizations in Iraq, Rumsfeld said in Paris Match's latest edition, released on Thursday. President Bush has said he would not consider the U.S. mission in Iraq complete until the capture of Saddam, who was deposed by...

By Dean Yates TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops hunting Saddam Hussein believe he is still in Iraq, but if they can't yet catch the ousted dictator they say they want to be sure he is cold, constantly on the run -- and preferably losing weight. "My guess is he probably has a plan to keep himself nice and cozy during winter, while the rest of his people suffer," Major General Raymond Odierno said Wednesday. "But we're going to try to keep him running so he can't be comfortable and doesn't have enough kerosene...to keep warm. And I hope he's...

AMERICAN and British intelligence are in secret negotiations to seize Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man. General Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam’s former deputy, is believed to be at the pinnacle of a pyramid of terrorists, mercenaries and supporters of the old regime waging war on allied forces in Iraq. Exclusive interviews with Paul Bremer, who runs the US-led coalition provisional authority, Dr David Kay, head of the Iraqi survey group that is searching for Saddam’s weapons, and senior military and intelligence officers in Iraq have revealed that the Americans have stepped up their efforts to seize al-Douri and stem the flow of...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 November 8, 2003Release Number: 03-11-03 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BODYGUARD DETAINED KIRKUK, Iraq – A person believed to be a former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein was detained in an early morning raid on Nov. 8 south of Kirkuk. Iraqi and coalition forces conducted the raid after obtaining information that indicated the target has been involved in anti-coalition attacks in recent weeks. The individual was apprehended without incident. Soldiers located and confiscated one AK-47 assault weapon, one machine pistol, one rifle, one...

BALTIC SEA COAST, Poland (Reuters) - Under cover of darkness and in complete silence Polish elite commandos stormed an offshore Iraqi oil platform in the first days of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. As they advanced towards the rig's control centre, it was far from clear if Saddam would use chemical weapons or even if the platform itself was a booby-trapped. "Suddenly an old telephone we passed on the platform began to ring. We held our breath thinking the ringer could be a fuse mechanism for a bomb," recalled an officer who took part in the mission. "After...

BALTIC SEA COAST, Poland (Reuters) - Under cover of darkness and in complete silence Polish elite commandos stormed an offshore Iraqi oil platform in the first days of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. As they advanced towards the rig's control centre, it was far from clear if Saddam would use chemical weapons or even if the platform itself was a booby-trapped. "Suddenly an old telephone we passed on the platform began to ring. We held our breath thinking the ringer could be a fuse mechanism for a bomb," recalled an officer who took part in the mission. "After...

'Task Force 121' has become one of the Pentagon's most highly classified and closely watched operations...developing..breaking...hard! They have now joined in the hunt for Saddam, Osama.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The top American military commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists throughout the region, according to Pentagon and military officials. The new Special Operations organization is designed to act with greater speed on intelligence tips about "high-value targets" and not be contained within the borders where American conventional forces are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gen. John P. Abizaid, who commands all American forces in the strategic crescent from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, decided over the summer to disband...

<p>The downing of an Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter shows Iraqi guerrillas are getting better organized and equipped, even as a relentless U.S. counterinsurgency eliminates more Saddam Hussein loyalists, said U.S. officials and outside analysts.</p> <p>A military officer said in an interview it is becoming increasingly important to find and kill Saddam to take the air out of a guerrilla force that fights for his return to power.</p>

<p>UJA, Iraq — American soldiers yesterday cordoned off the village where Saddam Hussein was born, suspecting this dusty farming community of being a secret base for funding and planning assaults against coalition forces.</p> <p>"There are ties leading to this village, to the funding and planning of attacks against U.S. soldiers," said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, a battalion commander with the 4th Infantry Division, which is based in nearby Tikrit.</p>