For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. ![]() For the Baathist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence, there will be no return to the corrupt power and privilege they once held. It marks the end of the road for him, and for all who bullied and killed in his name. “The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. The full text of President Bush’s statement follows: On the streets of Baghdad, crowds of Iraqis celebrated, firing guns and throwing candy into the air, singing and dancing and driving their cars shouting the news while radio stations played celebratory music. This fear is now removed.”īlair also stated, “Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace between all the people of Iraq.” “It removes the shadow that has been hanging over them for too long of the nightmare of a return to the Saddam regime. “This is very good news for the people of Iraq,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a statement Dec. Sanchez described Huseein as “a tired man, also a man resigned to his fate.” General Ricardo Sanchez told the news conference in Baghdad. “Today is a great day for the Iraqi people and the coalition,” Lt. Such men are a direct threat to the American people, and they will be defeated.” “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. “I also have a message for all Americans: The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq,” Bush said. The goals of our coalition are the same as your goals - sovereignty for your country, dignity for your great culture, and for every Iraqi citizen, the opportunity for a better life. All Iraqis who take the side of freedom have taken the winning side. Speaking to the Iraqi nation, Bush said, “You will not have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein ever again. 14, said, “For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.” ![]() ![]() President Bush, addressing the nation shortly after noon on Dec. currency and his mode of transportation while on the run apparently had been a white-and-orange taxi cab. He was described as hiding in an 8-by-10-foot-wide, 6-to-8-foot deep “spider hole” compartment with an exhaust fan at a rural farm residence. local Iraqi time by about 600 4th Infantry Division and special operations forces. 14 news conference in Baghdad.įruitful efforts by military intelligence led to Hussein’s capture with two aides at 8:30 p.m. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” a momentous announcement met with cheers at a Dec. ![]() Procedures are not yet in place for Hussein’s trial on Iraqi soil for war crimes stemming from the deaths of as many as 1 million Iraqis under his regime over the years. officials described Hussein as cooperative when he was captured, but much less so the next day. Video and pictures of Hussein broadcast across Iraq and worldwide showed a bearded, disheveled 66-year-old his heavy, black-and-gray beard subsequently was shaved, and those images also were broadcast. 13 in the town of Adwar, 10 miles from his hometown of Tikrit. TIKRIT, Iraq (BP)-Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured alive by U.S.
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