No news articles on the web just yet, but I'm watching ABC right now, and they just interrupted programming for the second time in an hour to report that first the reuters reported it, and now many other sources are confirming that Saddam Hussein has been apprhended in a raid outside of his home town.
There's a news conference being scheduled for 7:00 AM EST about this.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.main/index.html
MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3708151/
take your pick
While the others are actually waiting for the DNA tests before making such a claim..
Hopefully this will help quell the unrest.
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Shazorx / Modrakien painfully thought these words up:
Grats Bush on election 2004.
Yeah, no kidding. I'm now mixed with pleasure and apprehension.
Assuming, of course, that this is Saddam... I'm as hopeful as the next guy, but I really want to make sure before I do any real celebrating.
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There was much rejoicing when Mooj said this:
Aye, the election now is weighted pretty heavily in his favor now... only something truly catastrophic could take this wind out of his sails.Assuming, of course, that this is Saddam... I'm as hopeful as the next guy, but I really want to make sure before I do any real celebrating.
Like I said, I heard on News that the DNA came back as a match, and the scars on his body match, so... I'd say so, yes.
--Official Press Conference in 5 minures --
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Zair had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Like I said, I heard on News that the DNA came back as a match, and the scars on his body match, so... I'd say so, yes.--Official Press Conference in 5 minures --
I heard about the scars too, and that's a good sign. I'm just wondering how long they've had him for. DNA tests take quite a bit of time, or so I'd heard.
Grats.
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Check out the big brain on Trillee!
now.. if we could only catch Osama...
Saddam is more important at the current time. Saddam's followers were killing Americans and our Allies everyday; Al Queda(or whateva!) do something once every few months that kill less than Saddam's people were getting per week. In fact, the Special Forces who lead the raid on Saddam were taken out of Afghanistan just a few weeks ago to concentrate on Saddam.
Al Queda is pretty much gone. There are still seperate cells that call themselves under that name, but their centralized leadership is gone and the cells are pretty much on their own. We did a good job of stomping their network into the ground.
Am happy, or some reasonable form of it that can be expressed at 4.. well now 5.. in the morning, that he's caught.
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Trillee thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I agree.. was just a passing random thought.Am happy, or some reasonable form of it that can be expressed at 4.. well now 5.. in the morning, that he's caught.
how well this explains my feelings.... now back to sleep for another hour and a half... stupid radio alarm 
They cut his scraggly beard and combed his hair and he looks exactly like he used to now.
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This insanity brought to you by Oh shi...:
I can't wait for the Daily Show
That one's gonna be unmissable. AWARD MATERIAL, even.
It's not something people hear about.
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So quoth Oh shi...:
I forget, The Daily Show on Sundays? Or just Mon - Thur
Monday - Thursday
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Ladies and gentlemen: We got'im.
I bet the entire staff at Newsweek had a collective orgasm when they heard that oh-so-quotable snippet.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Oh shi... said:
Santa?
Saddam Claus.
need to get him cleaned up and healthy for a speedy trial. It will be important to have this trial deemed fair and impartial in the worlds view.
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Saddam, with a thick, graying beard and bushy, disheveled hair, was seen as doctor examined him, holding his mouth open with a tongue depressor, apparently to get a DNA sample
I'd think they were looking for a sucide capsule. [ 12-14-2003: Message edited by: Somthor ]
I need to check more throughly!
Or, I could just be talking out of my ass.
riiiiiiiight... then he develops the "flu" and dies from complications of it. Respiratory failure. YaknowwadImeanwinkwinksaynomoresaynomore.
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Sith Lord Nae was naked while typing this:
I honestly wonder if this means if the fighting over there is going to stop. I don't think that it does. Sure, we have their leader, but that just makes him a martyr. If there are others that believe the same way that he does, then this is a perfect opporunity for a coup.Or, I could just be talking out of my ass.
catch is you have to be dead to be a martyr. Saddam is likly counting on this whatever happens he likly wont face a death pentatly. he may rot in a nice cell some place for the rest of his life.
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Somthor spewed forth this undeniable truth:
catch is you have to be dead to be a martyr. Saddam is likly counting on this whatever happens he likly wont face a death pentatly. he may rot in a nice cell some place for the rest of his life.
He would have a helluva time in jail.
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Cowboy Darius spewed forth this undeniable truth:
He would have a helluva time in jail.
If they didn't put him in some kind of solitary confinement, jail WOULD be a death sentence.
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On another note, people from the Pentagon are saying that the capture of Saddam is likely to not stop more attacks and in fact they might increase. The real benefit of capturing him is that now the ordinary Iraqis no longer fear the US leaving and Saddam coming back, and will cooperate much more with the US to stabalize Iraq and create a government, etc.
