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Saddam Hussein 'arrested in Iraq'

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flanker
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Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been captured by US forces in Iraq, the coalition says.
He was found hiding in a cellar in his ancestral hometown of Tikrit, Iraqi official Ahmed Chalabi said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has welcomed the news saying it 'removes the shadow' from over Iraq.

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 1200 GMT but would not give further details.

Saddam Hussein has been the subject of intensive searches by US-led forces in Iraq but previous attempts to locate him have proved unsuccessful.

People have started celebrating the possible capture of their former president in the streets of Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The former Iraqi leader was last seen in television footage shot in April at a Baghdad market just before the city fell to US forces in the recent Iraq conflict.

US authorities have offered a $25m reward for information leading to his capture.

On 22 July his sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a raid by US forces in the northern city of Mosul.

Intelligence

In October, US officials said they had intelligence indicating Saddam Hussein was hiding in Tikrit.

They said he seemed to be moving around various safe houses with the aid of family members, often in disguise.

Saddam Hussein was born in Tikrit and has a tight network of family and clan ties which permeated all of the regime's main military, security and political institutions while he was in power.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Baghdad says it is not clear how US forces will verify that the identity of the man they reportedly have in custody is Saddam Hussein and not one of his doubles.

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Dec 14 2003 6:12AM
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c_lo
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This shit is rediculous. So what those honkeys found Sadam. That doesn't change the fact that Bush has yet to find the supposed weapons of mass destruction that supposedly justified the war on Iraq. Sadam is an evil mutherfucker don't get a man wrong. but lets look at the facts. George Bush took a presidential oath. He swore that he would uphold the laws of the land. Since UN charter was ratified it becomes a law of the land. By invading Iraq without the support of the security council G dubs has violated int'l law and therefore broken his promise to the american people to uphold the law of the land. In a true democracy this would be grounds for impeacment. If Sadam is tried I want to see g dubs, rumsfeild and Reagan on trial. Lest we forget that our dear homie ronald was baking this sadam bitch when he was gasing the iranians daily. So in short this hypocritical bullshit will not stand. the revolution is coming wathc your back.
Dec 17 2003 12:13AM
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SimonFiller
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C_lo that is pure 100% grade A bullshit.
Dec 17 2003 11:28AM
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SUpilot
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Come on C_lo my fellow gansta. First off Bush has not OFFICIALLY broken any international law. BUT, I can tell you who has OFFICIALLY broken international law. His name is Saddam. Saddam tried to have former pres Bush assasinated. Saddam invaded Saudi in an aggressive manner. Saddam broke humanitarian international laws by killing more than 300,000 civilians in his 'cleansing' process. Saddam broke humanitarian international laws by having rape rooms. Saddam broke humanitarian international laws by torturing and killing iraqi olympians who did not win their events. the list goes on and on and on. Hell if you knew your shit you would even know that the UN has violated international law. Not to the scale of Iraq's offenses, but a broken law is a broken law. I believe it was on On November 8, when the U.N. Security Council voted 15-0 vote in favor of Resolution 1441, which concerns Iraq. Through its passage of the Resolution, the Security Council indirectly supported the U.S.'s threat to go to war against Saddam Hussein. Some parts of the Resolution are unobjectionable. But others may violate the U.N. charter, and thus violate international law. The US isnt the bad guy. So dont single out bush. he is not the bad guy you make him or want him to be. he is a great leader with humanitarian interests. your all confused.

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Dec 17 2003 1:00PM
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c_lo
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Humanitarian interests? Dude your so fucking retarted
Dec 18 2003 3:11PM
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SUpilot
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Thats a good way to make a follow up in an argument that you have not chance of winning. Fucking retard.
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Dec 18 2003 3:37PM
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Nickskier
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SU_Pilot, i agree with what you said except for one thing. Bush didn't say anything about Saddam until we got in there and realized we didn't have a reason. If he had had made that his goal in the first place, maybe not everyone would have opposed.
Dec 18 2003 5:22PM
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SimonFiller
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Nickskier, the capture of Saddam should speak for its self. People knew that if we invaded Iraq we would search for and attempt to capture Saddam. Its not the primary reason we are there.
Dec 18 2003 11:15PM
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j.bird
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Honkeys??? o ok so now we are using racial slurs huh?? ok then im finally glad we captured that sand nigger. I mean, those camel jockeys were fucking crazy i tell you.
Dec 18 2003 11:58PM
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j.bird
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^^^Just wait and see what kind of responses that will get. I will get all kinds of different remarks about how i am a white supremesist, and how im racist. But its ok to say it when its about a white guy.
Dec 19 2003 12:01AM
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SUpilot
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C_lo won't care. he knows he is just a wannabe ganster.
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Dec 19 2003 7:29AM
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221
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Let me tell you about the 'innocent' people Saddam gassed: they were KURDS. NOBODY, not nobdy likes a Kurd. They gotta be the most hated, viscious society on the planet. EVERY neighbouring country Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq would love to run in and kill every one of those worthless bastards. Kurdish militias opened fire on US troops after the '91 war after they were 'liberated' and EVERY Kurdish faction (including the PUK) is listed as a terrorist organization. Kurds launched the largest assault on US troops since the invasion just a few weeks ago in northern Iraq. What was most disturbing is they didn't hit and run, they stood and fought until they were killed. They're crazy fucks. So Saddam did what anybody would do when he busted out the gas. It was just used to paint Saddam in a bad light because Iraq-US relations were beginning to fray at the time. You want some crimes against humanity? You should see what Russia has done to the Chechens, but those greasy bastards deserve it too.

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Dec 19 2003 11:53AM
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Mykel
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how'd he 'gas' the kurds if he has no wmds?


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Dec 19 2003 1:14PM
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dspin7x
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SUpilot - Sadaam did do all those thigns you listed i agree... but there are 20 or 30 other countries in the world that have the same types of leaders and we dont do shit about them. Why is that?? is it because iraq is sitting on a lake of oil perhaps??

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Dec 19 2003 1:41PM
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SUpilot
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221 whether they are crazy fools or not is irrelevant. he was gassing their little sons and daughters too. just isnt right. as for chech...there have been US troops there for a while. its nothing new and we are helping the situation.
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Dec 19 2003 1:43PM
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SimonFiller
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dspin7x...its time for a 'what if' scenario. Say you see two candy bars, but one comes with a 50 dollar bill. which candy bar to you choose? granted its a harsh reality, but its the truth. darwin would be proud...its an undeniable instict friend.
Dec 19 2003 2:49PM
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221
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this was in 88, long time ago. there wasnt been wmds in Iraq for years. And Kurds are generally regarded as terrorists, young or old. Go ahead and defend them, they have already turned on the US as evidenced by attacks spreding north to Mosul, deep in their territory. Seems they have taken a liking to drive-bys on US soldiers. The offices of the PUK (supposedly a Kurdish ally) was raided by US 2 weeks ago. why? Why would you stick up for them? They are an enemy too. Saddam is the least of the trouble there. And no us troops have been deployed anywhere near Chechnya, they are letting Russia deal with that one alone. (Thats in Russia, not Chechslovakia.)

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im just gonna sling crystal meth so i dont have to get a real job and can afford to ski, with the way my senior year is goin though thats probably one of my few options
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Dec 19 2003 4:18PM
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dspin7x
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ya Simonfiller im not argueing that i know damn well why we went to iraq and it does make more sense then going to other countries. IM just sick of all you damn republicans saying what a horrible man he was and that is why we went to war, because there are multiple horrible rulers in the world who we do absolutley nothing about.

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Dec 19 2003 4:51PM
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Infantz16
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dspin- just because there are others, doesn't mean that that lessens the badness of Hussein, who cares we went after him and not them, maybe this will send a message to all the others.




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Dec 19 2003 5:11PM
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j.bird
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the fact that he is sitting on an oil ocean doesn't change the fact that he is an evil man dspin. He is still one of the most corrupt leaders of all time and just because he is in an oil infested area, we are supposed to leave him alone?? hahah yea rite when we can make a profit off of it. why not?

Dec 20 2003 2:20AM
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Dec 20 2003 6:55PM
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that is the funniest pics i've ever seen.
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Dec 21 2003 11:58AM
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.scott.
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and...i'm glad we caught him. i've spent the last few days at school discussing the ways that we should kill him. this is what the consensus wants first, we let people pay money to punch him or hit him with a bat, but only on his arms and legs so he doesn't get killed, yet. next, we drop him off naked in san frisco for a couple days and let big guys ass rape him. then, we chain him to the back of a truck (still naked) and drag him until he is all cut up and bleeding. after that, we toss him in the sewer so he will have infectious wounds all over his body. then, we nail him to some plywood and hang him up in times square for a couple days just to humiliate him. and finally, we toss him in a huge water tank while he's still nailed to that board and let the iraqi people spit and piss on him until he drowns. and just so everyone knows, i am not the sick fuck who thought all this up, this is just my collection of other people's suggestions, but i do think that would be the ultimate punishment.
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Dec 21 2003 12:05PM
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Nickskier
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its not a bad thing, but it shouldn't be justification for a war because we caught him 6 months after the war started.
Dec 21 2003 3:19PM
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Mykel
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so let my attempt to introduce some reasoning and common sense to the closed minded liberal brainwashees. Saddam hated the kurds so he slaughtered them wholesale. Saddam hates the U.S. So naturally if he was given more time and means, he would have done the same to us. I support the war, because, perhaps I am a bit crazy. Yes, I will admit to wanting to be safe from threats. And yes I will admit to wanting the Iraqi people to be free...but hey, maybe that's just me!


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Dec 21 2003 6:56PM
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lagwagon
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Its a good thing that he got caught i guess, but in the long run what spawns off this capture, lets say if bush gets reelected the world is going to be ten times as fucked over as it is now.

and dont give me your macho hippy bashing bullshit, it doesnt phase my beliefs anymore.
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Dec 23 2003 2:38AM
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j.bird
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ok im tired of your gay ass posts bitch. all you ever do is bad mouth the Bush but you never put any reasoning into your posts. And yes he will get re elected? and why? because he is doing an excellent job as of late. things yes were in the shitter for a while, maybe longer than they should have been but that isn't his fault. 9/11 happened and the shit hit the fan?? what the fuck is he supposed to do?? And ever since we entered Iraq nothing but good has come to the world since then. We captured, alive, the most corrupt ruler of all time, to his own people for gods sake. We are re-instating a centralized government and are rebuilding Iraq. Yea a some people have died, but compared to what might have come, i'll take the extra step just to secure our safety. And compared to the amount of people that have died in other wars of this length, the numbers are phenominal.


Dec 23 2003 2:52AM
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lagwagon
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God Supilot, you are incredibly stupid boring and egotistic, Where were you brought up, NEAR TEXAS? anyway i dont even wanna know.

c_lo i agree with your ideology very much, and it irritates me to see these right wing radicals such as Supilot being so confident in their social beleifs, and close minded to others challenging it.

There will be everlasting conflict and contrast between the right wing white power superemacies on this site and the so called 'liberals', a label put on people who care about the values of true democarcy and PCness, a label that has a byline of 'not to be taken seriously' on it, get some brains. FUCK YOU SUPILOT!
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Dec 23 2003 2:56AM
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SUpilot
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fagwagon is back? i see your style hasn't changed much. got intellect? FUCK YOU FUCK ME? i'm not making fun of you fagwagon, but do you seriously have some sort of impetiment? i'm not open minded to arguments, which have no factual backing. that said, i have many a times agreed to disagree with people because they offer supported rational, even though i dont agree. your too weird, ha.
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Dec 23 2003 8:20AM
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