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Al-Jizz: The rewrite
Saddam Hussein captured
Saddam Hussein has been captured alive near his home town of Tikrit in a major coup for the beleaguered US-led occupation forces in Iraq.
| "Yeah! Maybe they got him, but it ain't a real victory..." |
US occupying administrator Paul Bremer said Hussein was captured late on Saturday after more than eights months of searching for him.
| "Took all that time, and there he was in Tikrit, all the time. Incompetents!" |
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference on Sunday that the army had received intelligence late on Saturday of two possible hideouts near the village of Aghwar.
| "Somebody hadda tell 'em where to look!" |
Some 600 special forces participated in the raid to capture the ousted Iraqi leader, who was found hiding in what Sanchez called "a spider hole".
| "Took all those guys to capture one dictator!" |
US forces showed a videotape of the hideout. The video showed a bearded Hussein recieving a medical examination, to the applause of the journalists.
"They humiliated the poor man in public!"
Probably within 24 hours, somebody's going to say that showing those clips was a violation of some provision of the Geneva Convention, violating the poor dictator's privacy. I think we all know that... |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-14 |
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