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From: dotslash at snosoft.com (KF)
Subject: Saddam Hussein Captured

I was expecting some fake IE link, some XSS  or something along those 
lines . Tis no joke. =]
-KF

Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP, CFSO, CFSA, SCSA wrote:

> http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.main/index.html
>
> U.S.: 'We got him'
> Coalition captures Saddam, 'talkative,' in raid near Tikrit
> Sunday, December 14, 2003 Posted: 10:10 AM EST (1510 GMT)
>
> TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- After nine months of scurrying from house to 
> house, Saddam Hussein appeared to be a tired, resigned man who offered 
> no resistance when U.S. troops extracted him from a hole in a rural 
> farmhouse Saturday night.
>
> L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, announced 
> Sunday morning, "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."
>
> The audience responded with cheers, and Iraqis took to Baghdad streets 
> dancing, doling out candy and firing rifles into the air. But in 
> Tikrit -- Saddam's ancestral hometown and a base of loyalty to him -- 
> the streets were quiet.
>
> President Bush will address the nation at noon Sunday about the 
> capture of Saddam.
>
> Coalition video showed the ventilated "spider hole" six to eight feet 
> underground where Saddam was hiding with two other men, who have not 
> yet been identified. The video showed Saddam with graying hair and a 
> long beard, undergoing a medical examination after his capture.
>
> Several Iraqi journalists stood up and shouted "Death to Saddam" after 
> the video was shown.
>
> "I'm very happy for the Iraqi people. Life is going to be safer now," 
> 35-year-old Yehya Hassan, a resident of Baghdad, told The Associated 
> Press. "Now we can start a new beginning."
>
> And in Kirkuk, Mustapha Sheriff told the Associated Press, "We are 
> celebrating like it's a wedding. We are finally rid of that criminal." 
> (Full story)
>
> The 66-year-old longtime Iraqi leader was number one on the 
> coalition's 55 most wanted list, and his evasion has been a political 
> sore spot for the U.S. administration. (Saddam profile)
>
> Raid in rural town
> Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who leads coalition troops in Iraq, said the 
> former leader was uninjured, "talkative and cooperative," after 4th 
> Infantry Division and Special Operations forces nabbed him in 
> Operation Red Dawn.
>
> "Today is a great day for the Iraqi people and the coalition," Sanchez 
> said.
>
> About 600 4th Infantry Division soldiers and Special Operations forces 
> conducted the raid in Adwar, near a compound of ramshackle buildings 
> about 9 miles outside Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, Saturday night.
>
> The raid was based on intelligence that Saddam was at a particular 
> location in the area, the officials said. Forces arrived at the 
> location within three hours of receiving a tip from an Iraqi, and 
> Saddam had no time to move to another location.
>
> The U.S. forces moved easily into the area where there were no 
> security forces to protect the ousted leader.
>
> Saddam, thin, dirty and hiding in the cellar of mud hut, willingly 
> identified himself to interpreters. He was wearing a white T-shirt, 
> dark trousers and a long-sleeved dark shirt.
>
> Video following that raid -- exclusively shot by CNN's Alphonso Van 
> Marsh -- showed a group of U.S.-led coalition soldiers patting each 
> other on the back -- apparently in celebration -- and taking group 
> photos in front of a military vehicle.
>
> Sanchez said Operation Red Dawn targeted two locations and troops 
> began a "cordon and search" operation when they failed to find Saddam 
> initially. The ventilated "spider hole," its entrance camouflaged with 
> bricks and dirt was near one of the locations.
>
> "He was a tired man," the general said. "Also, I think, a man resigned 
> to his fate."
>
> Sanchez said the hole where forces found Saddam was wide enough for a 
> man to lie down in, with a fan and a air hole.
>
> Preparing for retaliation
> Adnan Pachaci, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, said Saddam 
> would be tried for his crimes against Iraqis, and would be tried by 
> Iraqis.
>
>
> Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez says Saddam was uninjured, "talkative and 
> cooperative," after 4th Infantry Division and Special Operations 
> forces nabbed him. "The terrorist, Saddam Hussein, the biggest 
> terrorist on earth, has been arrested," said Hamid Ali al-Kifaey. "He 
> will be tried before a special court in Iraq soon. With his arrest the 
> Iraqi people will begin a new life, and hopefully they will have a 
> democratic and pluralistic system and no more mass graves, and no more 
> Saddam Hussein and no more terrorism."
>
> A senior U.S. official told CNN's Dana Bash in Washington that Defense 
> Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told President Bush on Saturday afternoon 
> (EST) of the capture.
>
> The Iraq war began on March 19 when U.S. forces launched a 
> "decapitation attack" aimed at the Iraqi president and other top 
> members of the country's leadership.
>
> Hours after the capture -- but before it was announced -- a car bomb 
> exploded outside an Iraqi police station in Khaldiyah, killing at 
> least 10 Iraqis and wounding 20 others, most of them policemen, U.S. 
> officials said. Iraqi officials reported a higher casualty toll. (Full 
> story)
>
> "Do I expect an increase in retaliation?" as a result of Saddam's 
> capture, Sanchez asked. "I don't know. I couldn't answer that, but I 
> will tell you we are prepared, and we will defeat those elements if 
> they choose to attack us at any point in time."
>
> CNN Senior Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre and CNN 
> Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf contributed to this report.
>

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