Saddam Hussein arrested

[oedo]

just read it on a german news site:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,278273,00.html

the article says he has been arrested in Tikris. details will certainly follow.
no matter if you were pro war or contra war this is definately good news.

[Dis]

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I'm having trouble reading the words on that link for some reason.

[Hueij]

Whoa! While reading that Spiegel article it is reported on Dutch radio too. They say there will be a press announcement at 13:00 GMT+1 (7 AM EST?).

[DRoseDARs]

AP press release on Yahoo

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_iraq_saddam&cid=540&ncid=716

New Agency Says Saddam Detained in Iraq
4 minutes ago


TEHRAN, Iran - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has been detained in Iraq (news - web sites), Iran's official news agency reported Sunday.



"Saddam Hussein was arrested in his hometown of Tikrit," IRNA quoted top Iraqi leader, Jalal Talabani as saying. It gave no further details.

[Dis]

'bout time

for the american news to pick up on this.

well, 'bout time for the other thing too

CNN is saying he is captured now. Fox news is talking about michael Jackson

[DRoseDARs]

Bear in mind he had about 743,996 body doubles and lookalikes...

[Winston]

Waits for the enraged lefties to denounce this as yet another attempt to cover up the fact that it's all about oil and Bush's re-election.

Always remember, there is no such thing as good news where Iraq is concerned.

[Ned]

It's live on CNN right now!

We ought to given him a fair chance to escape again - a count of 20? before we open fire.

Die you NAZI dog!

[Dis]

I'm really curious what will happen now. Will the U.S. turn him over for a trial at the Hague? I doubt it. The U.S. will probably try him in the U.S. for war crimes. Though I don't think that would be possible as war crimes is an international crime, not a national crime.

[oedo]

Originally posted by Dissident
'bout time

for the american news to pick up on this.

well, 'bout time for the other thing too

CNN is saying he is captured now. Fox news is talking about michael Jackson

Spiegel may be a somewhat biased source, but they´re usually the first site reportng important news.
they still edit the article and bring more and more details. now they say people in Kirkuk run on the streets and celebrate.


concerning foxnews, I guess they will mention it next year a couple of weeks before the prez-elections.

[alva]

Die you NAZI dog!

Noooh, I want a long spun out public!! trial ala O.J.Simpson

With a different verdict though.

[Dis]

FoxNews is running a rerun of their big story show which airs earlier in the evening I believe. They just don't have the staff CNN has.

CNN has the British anchor covering things as the lead anchor with other people on phone with him.

[Dis]

Fox News just now reporting on it. They dropped the ball on this one. You would think their buddies in the Bush administration would have hooked them up.

[Nubclear]

Slav'sya!

[Dis]

edit: I guess I'm not the first .

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