![]() “Now it must state clearly what the fate of its presence in Iraq will be.” “The United States has achieved its declared goal of removing the regime and arresting its leaders,” the Saudi daily Al-Watan argued in an editorial. ![]() Other Arab newspaper commentators hoped Hussein’s arrest would hasten the departure of U.S. Iraqi leaders such as Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari appeared to squirm at their own lack of knowledge of how and when the operation in their name was carried out. presence in Iraq being exposed as a neocolonialist enterprise now that Hussein is captured. The pundits that appeared on Arab TV, far from sounding embarrassed, seemed to revel in the prospect of the U.S. The Arab satellite channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera gave the event extensive and factual coverage. “With his silence, those Arabs who favor terrorizing people and falsifying will also fall silent-temporarily,” another columnist, Abdel-Rahman al-Rashid wrote in the same paper. He was reacting, of course, to the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A leader surrendered without fighting, the Arab street is stunned, and the Arab media appears to be in a state of shock,” wrote Tareq al-Hamed in London’s Saudi-owned, Pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat on Dec. “What we saw yesterday was the televised unveiling of a 30-year-old lie. 14, 2003 (Photo: Henghameh Fahimi/AFP-Getty Images). Iraqis celebrate the capture of Saddam Hussein in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite slum of Baghdad, Dec. ![]() administrator Paul Bremer broke the news to the world.Middle East The Arab Press on Saddam Hussein’s Capture from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Saddam may have been caught, press secretary Scott McClellan said. soldiers in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit fired up celebratory cigars, there was also elation at the White House - though Bush warned that the capture of Saddam "does not mean the end of violence in Iraq."īush was at Camp David on Saturday when he got a call at 3:15 p.m. "Finally, we got the ultimate information from one of these individuals." "We tried to work through family and tribal ties that might have been close to Saddam Hussein," Odierno said. Saddam, however, had millions in stolen cash at his disposal and his clan to help him. They put a $25 million bounty on his head and tracked what Bush called Saddam's "footprints" like bloodhounds. The tyrant was the Ace of Spades on a special deck of cards that U.S. Saddam went underground in April after U.S.-led coalition forces routed his army in a three-week war. The Pentagon broadcast the shocking images of Saddam with a thick graying beard and a bushy mop of uncombed hair that the specialist checked for lice. Within hours, an Army specialist was videotaped sticking a tongue depressor into Saddam's mouth to get DNA samples and determine that this was indeed the former dictator - not one of the look-alikes whom he employed to thwart assassins. Soldiers also arrested two Saddam lackeys and confiscated two Kalashnikov rifles, a taxi cab, a strongbox packed with $750,000 in $100 bills and documents that may implicate those who were helping him to survive on the lam. "It is rather ironic that he was in a hole in the ground across the river from these great palaces he built where he robbed all the money from the Iraqi people," Odierno said. soldiers were the bewildered eyes of the 66-year-old tyrant. ![]() Beneath a trapdoor camouflaged by bricks and lined with foam to muffle any sound, soldiers found a 6- to 8-foot-deep cellar with just enough space for a person to lie down.
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