Following the capture of Saddam Hussein, “Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) head L. Paul Bremer made the announcement at a 14 December [2003] press conference in Baghdad, saying, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. For decades hundreds of thousands of you suffered at the hands of this cruel man. For decades, Saddam Hussein divided you citizens […]
12/14/2003
“President Bush addressed the nation on Sunday, December 14, 2003: ‘The capture of this man [Saddam] was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq. It marks the end of the road for him, and for all who bullied and killed in his name. For the Baathist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence, there […]
12/13/2003
“On December 13, 2003, the biggest prize of all came when Saddam himself was found alive at the bottom of a hole near Tikrit, in the Sunni Triangle.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 38 […]
12/13/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Capture of Saddam Hussein by US Forces.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Dec. 13, 2003 […]
12/13/2003
Saddam was interrogated by U.S. intelligence shortly after his capture on December 13, 2003. When he was asked “why he would not let [weapons] inspectors into his facilities if he had no weapons, he was reported to have said, ‘We didn’t want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy.’ “ […]
12/13/2003
On the evening of December 13, 2003, American forces searching for Saddam Hussein were at a farmhouse outside of Tikrit. After identifying a rug over a trapdoor, “The soldiers drew their weapons and beamed bright lights down a thirty-inch-square shaft. At the bottom, in a hole barely bigger than a coffin, was a haggard sixty-six-year-old […]
12/13/2003
In Iraq, “Saddam Hussein had been captured on 13 December, 2003 by elements of the USA’s 4th Infantry Division, while hiding in a six-foot-deep hole in a farm in the village of Daur, close to his hometown of al-‘Auja. The hole was covered by a trap door. His disheveled, heavily bearded, and haggard face was […]
12/13/2003
“On December 13, 2003, in a moment of misplaced bravado, [Coalition Provisional Authority leader] Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III famously crowed at a press conference, ‘We got him!’ Saddam Hussein was finally captured in an intensive hunt by U.S. Special Forces that began with the invasion nine months earlier. He had been literally holed up […]
12/13/2003
According to articles from The New York Times and The Washington Post, both dated on January 14, 2004: “Saddam…consistently refused operational cooperation with Osama before he fell and went into hiding in April [2003]. In written instructions seized when he was at last captured in December [13] 2003–and deemed authentic by the CIA–Saddam warned his […]
12/13/2003
On December 13, 2003, “Saddam Hussein was found by a team of U.S. Special Forces hiding in a hole six feet underground nine miles from his hometown of Tikrit. …The president [Bush] gave a short televised speech. ‘This afternoon, I have a message for the Iraqi people,’ he said. ‘This event brings further assurance that […]