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- 02/01/04 Saddam information has helped U.S., official says - The United States has used information gained during interrogations of Saddam Hussein to help round up insurgents and identify false leads, a senior military official said. American military officials believe about 14 cells of Saddam loyalists are operating in Iraq's capital, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. There are about 250 to 300 ``hard-core" insurgents in those cells, the official said.
- 01/29/04 Iraq Minister Says Saddam's WMD Carefully Hidden - BAGHDAD, Iraq, -- Iraq's foreign minister said on Thursday weapons of mass destruction acquired by the country's former rulers, which inspectors have failed to find, had been carefully hidden and he was confident they could be found...
- 01/28/04 Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac - BAGHDAD, Iraq, -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq...
- 01/25/04 Saddam had no WMDs: UN inspector - Washington: David Kay, who just resigned as the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, said Sunday he did not think that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when US-led forces invaded the country. "We led this search to find the truth, not to find the weapons. The fact that we found that so far the weapons did not exist, we've got to deal with that difference and understand why," Kay told National Public Radio...
- 01/12/04 Attacks down 22% since Saddam's capture - BAGHDAD ?Attacks against coalition forces in Iraq have dropped 22% in the four weeks since Saddam Hussein's capture, military records show. U.S. military officers say the decline in attacks, after months of growing intensity, is the first proof that Saddam's capture and recent U.S. offensives have dampened, but not eliminated, resistance to the occupation.
- 01/10/04 Saddam's Ouster Planned In '01? - The Bush Administration began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported. That's what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his first interview about his time as a White House insider. O'Neill talks to Correspondent Lesley Stahl in the interview, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
- 01/09/04 British official: Saddam not talking, but documents are - LONDON (AP) -- Saddam Hussein has given no useful information to U.S. interrogators, who are patiently trying to make the deposed Iraqi dictator feel "comfortable" about talking, a senior British official said Friday...
- 01/09/04 US gives Saddam enemy POW status - The United States has formally declared the ousted Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, an "enemy prisoner of war". A Pentagon spokesman said Saddam was given the status as he was the leader of the "old regime's military forces".
- 01/05/04 Bin Laden Tape Blasts U.S., Saddam, Palestinians - CAIRO, Egypt ?A speaker who was purportedly Usama bin Laden said on an audiotape that the U.S.-led war in Iraq was the beginning of the "occupation" of Gulf states for their oil and called on Muslims to keep fighting a holy war in the Middle East...
- 12/24/03 Saddam fell for hoax: UK claim - British officials are circulating a story that Saddam Hussein may have been hoodwinked into believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The theory is the result of an attempt to explain why no chemical and biological weapons had surfaced in Iraq...
- 12/21/03 Saddam Up Close - Out of the hole: Saddam struggled and spat, until a commando slugged him. Behind one of the most intense manhunts in history...
- 12/21/03 Saddam Hussein moved often before capture - ADWAR, IRAQ -- Before his capture in a coffinlike bunker near the the desolate town of Adwar, Saddam Hussein spent months moving furtively among 20 or 30 nondescript safe houses in the Sunni Muslim heartland, where a tightknit network of family and clan members sheltered him and brought him news from across U.S.-dominated Iraq, U.S. military officials say...
- 12/18/03 Saddam in the Slammer Pix Cause Stir - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?New pictures of Saddam Hussein in custody were plastered across the front page of Al Mutamar newspaper Thursday, causing a mad rush to the newsstands....
- 12/18/03 Report: Saddam Says He'd Still Win Election - WASHINGTON ?A defiant, deranged Saddam Hussein is making outrageous statements to CIA interrogators, claiming his government never surrendered - and that he would win by a landslide in new Iraqi elections, The Post has learned...
- 12/17/03 Blix sceptical on Iraqi WMD claim - Iraq probably destroyed its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the early 1990s, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said...
- 12/17/03 Iraqi Official: Saddam Held in Baghdad - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military is holding Saddam Hussein in the Baghdad area, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said Wednesday. "He is still in greater Baghdad," said council member Mouwafak al-Rubaie. "Maybe he will stay there until he stands trial."...
- 12/17/03 U.S. tries to trip up Saddam - WASHINGTON ?Saddam Hussein is being shown videotapes of anti-Saddam protests in Iraq, the unearthing of mass graves and the torture and execution of prisoners during his reign, two U.S. officials who are receiving reports on his interrogation said Tuesday. The goal is to provoke him into making unguarded statements by confronting him with evidence that could be used in a war-crimes trial, according to the two officials, one in the administration and one in an intelligence agency...
- 12/16/03 Iraqi Minister Scolds U.N. for Inaction Regarding Hussein - Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, accused the United Nations Security Council today of having failed to help rescue his country from Saddam Hussein, and he chided member states for bickering over his beleaguered country's future...
- 12/16/03 Israel Planned to Kill Saddam in 1992 - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The Israeli military planned a daring assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein in 1992 - a plot that would have involved landing commandos in Iraq and firing sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral, an Israeli legislator and media said Tuesday...
- 12/16/03 Saddam Trial to Take Time; Supporters Riot - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Stunned supporters of Saddam Hussein rioted in a number of Iraqi cities as indications rose it would be some time before the captured former dictator faces trial for his actions over the past three decades...
- 12/15/03 France Pledges to Help Reduce Iraq Debt - PARIS - France said Tuesday it will work with other nations to cancel billions of dollars in Iraqi debt and that Saddam Hussein's capture will open the way toward mending relations with Washington. Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin of France, one of the most persuasive and persistent critics of the U.S. decision to wage war in Iraq, said he hopes the capture will allow the international community to "regain its unity."
- 12/15/03 Saddam Reported to Be 'Broken' - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein is a broken man and has supplied intelligence that helped capture two top wanted men, officials said on Monday, but violence raged on in Iraq despite his arrest and bombings killed nine people...
- 12/15/03 Britain Opposes Death Penalty for Saddam - LONDON (Reuters) - Washington's closest Iraq war ally Britain said Monday it would play no part in any trial of Saddam Hussein that might lead to his execution. But London -- which abolished capital punishment 40 years ago -- also made clear it would reluctantly accept death for the captured ex-dictator if that was what an Iraqi tribunal ruled...
- 12/15/03 Iran Wants Saddam Tried for Iran-Iraq War - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran wants Saddam Hussein to face justice for alleged atrocities during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in which more than 1 million people were killed or wounded, officials said Monday. A spokesman also said Iran wants the court to expose which nations sold weapons to Saddam - a reference to allegations that the U.S. military supplied him during the Iran-Iraq war...
- 12/15/03 Gen. Myers: Saddam Capture Sends 'Message' - Gen. Richard Myers is in Kuwait on a long-scheduled USO tour to visit troops along with actor Robin Williams, NASCAR driver Mike Wallace and wrestler Kurt Angle. The trip has taken on much more significance with the capture of ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...
- 12/15/03 Saddam Denies Having Prohibited Weapons - Saddam Hussein has denied to his interrogators that his regime had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida, U.S. officials said Monday. He has greeted his initial interrogation with a mix of sarcasm and defiance, the officials said, discussing the questioning only on the condition of anonymity. Some of his responses are regarded as an attempt to rationalize and justify his actions, the officials said...
- 12/15/03 Candy Bars, Hot Dogs and Dirty Dishes in Saddam's Hideaway - ADWAR, Iraq (AP) - The yard was a mess, the laundry wasn't done, the pantry was bare and the only art on the wall was a poster of Noah's Ark...
- 12/15/03 Official: Saddam Could Face Execution - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein could be tried "in the next few weeks" and could be executed if convicted, an Iraqi Governing Council member said Monday. Other council members said the televised trial would likely begin later, perhaps by summer...
- 12/15/03 UK: Saddam unlikely to reveal WMD - LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says it is unlikely Saddam Hussein will reveal details of Iraq's alleged banned weapons program. "Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein," Straw told a news conference in London Monday, two days after the former Iraqi president was captured by U.S. troops...
- 12/15/03 Iraq trial for Saddam - Britain today opened the way for Saddam Hussein to be tried in Iraq - and to be sentenced to death. Tony Blair and Jack Straw left it in no doubt that the UK would raise no objection if the former president faced execution in his own country...
- 12/15/03 Officials Lay Out Plan to Question Saddam - First, find out whether Saddam Hussein knows of any impending guerrilla attacks planned against U.S. troops or Iraqis. Then ask where Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri and other remaining senior regime officials and insurgent leaders are hiding...
- 12/15/03 Saddam Tells Troops He Wants to Negotiate - ADWAR, Iraq (AP) - "My name is Saddam Hussein," the fallen Iraqi leader told U.S. troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole that had become his home. "I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate." U.S. Special Forces replied: "Regards from President Bush."...
- 12/15/03 Saddam Moved to 'Undisclosed Location' - ADWAR, Iraq (AP) - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?U.S. forces converged on a farmhouse near Tikrit and discovered the Ace of Spades literally in the hole ?Saddam Hussein with a pistol, hiding in a dirt pit 6 feet in the ground...
- 12/15/03 For 14 Long Hours, Keeping the Secret - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld spoke guardedly when he called President Bush at Camp David at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, with the bombshell that Saddam Hussein apparently was in custody after a fruitless eight-month search that had tormented the White House...
- 12/15/03 Big story kicked off long and chaotic day for media outlets - NBC's Meet the Press host Tim Russert dreamt that Saddam Hussein had been captured....
- 12/14/03 U.S. Takes Saddam From Iraq After Capture - BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops captured a haggard Saddam Hussein in a cramped hole near one of his sumptuous palaces Sunday, a humiliating fate for one of history's most brutal dictators. A U.S. official later said Saddam had been moved to another country, and the Dubai-based Arab TV station Al-Arabiya said he was taken to Qatar...
- 12/14/03 Iraqis Surprised Saddam Didn't Fight - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein should have put up a fight or committed suicide, stunned Iraqis said Sunday after watching images of their fallen leader, haggard and humiliated...
- 12/14/03 No Indian comment on Saddam - NEW DELHI : India on Sunday said it had taken note of the arrest of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein by US-led forces. "We have taken note that Saddam has been arrested in Iraq ," external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha told reporters here after a meeting of the cabinet committee on security...
- 12/14/03 TIME Exclusive: Notes from Saddam in Custody - Saddam is talking, but he isn't cooperative. New details on his capture and his first interrogation...
- 12/14/03 Saddam to face war crimes tribunal - BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein will get a fair trial before a war crimes tribunal that was approved just last week, members of the Iraqi Governing Council said Sunday...
- 12/14/03 Saddam's nine-month flight from capture - BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- In a huge victory for the U.S.-led coalition, the nine-month manhunt for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ended when he was captured in a mud tunnel, where he had hidden in a hole just wide enough for him to lie down...
- 12/14/03 U.S. Commander: Tip Led to Saddam Capture - TIKRIT, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was captured based on information from a member of a family "close to him," Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno said Sunday...
- 12/14/03 Many Arabs Skeptical on Saddam's Capture - CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Many in the Arab world greeted news of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's capture with initial disbelief that turned to joy and hunger for revenge against the tyrant or, among some, sadness that an Arab leader should come to such a tawdry end...
- 12/14/03 Arabs share little of world joy over Saddam's capture - CAIRO (AFP) - Arabs shared little of the world's joy over Saddam Hussein's capture, with many bitter over another victory for an "arrogant" pro-Israeli United States...
- 12/14/03 Bush: Saddam Capture Ends 'Dark, Painful Era' - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?With the capture of Saddam Hussein in hand, President Bush declared Sunday that "a dark and painful era is over." Bush spoke to the nation more than five hours after U.S. officials in Baghdad announced that Saddam had been seized in a raid near Tikrit...
- 12/14/03 Text of Bush's Speech on Saddam - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?The following are President Bush's remarks Sunday on the capture of Saddam Hussein, as provided by the White House...
- 12/14/03 Baghdadis Celebrate Saddam's Capture - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?Celebratory gunfire rang out across the Iraqi capital, radios played festive music, drivers honked their horns and passengers on buses and trucks chanted "They got Saddam, they got Saddam," as word of the former dictator's capture spread from car to car and shop to shop on a sun-filled Sunday afternoon...
- 12/14/03 Army Tells of Pulling Bewildered Saddam from Hole - TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - When U.S. forces pulled Saddam Hussein from a hole in the ground behind a two-room shepherd's hut, they were within sight of the former Iraqi president's lavish palaces in his hometown of Tikrit...
- 12/14/03 U.S. soldiers with 4th Inf. Div. capture Saddam Hussein near his hometown - WASHINGTON ?With three words ?“We got him??Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit....
- 12/14/03 Bush Got First Heads-Up Of Capture Saturday Afternoon - WASHINGTON -- President Bush first learned that Saddam Hussein may have been captured on Saturday afternoon, and was given confirmation of the most sought-after prize in the Iraq war early Sunday, senior administration officials said...
- 12/14/03 Bush Greets Saddam Capture as 'Enchanting Day' - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major coup for his beleaguered Iraq campaign, President Bush on Sunday reveled in the capture of Saddam Hussein as an "enchanting day" for the Iraqi people and final proof their long-time leader was gone...
- 12/14/03 Saddam Was 'Dishevelled and Had Long Beard' - US raiders were not certain at first they had Saddam when they pulled a bearded man from a hole in a Iraq cellar, but soon were able to determine it was Saddam Hussein. The Associated Press was shown documentary evidence that the person captured was Saddam Hussein. The evidence depicted Saddam as dishevelled and wearing a long beard...
- 12/14/03 List of 55 Most Wanted Iraqis - The 55 most-wanted Iraqis and their status, according to U.S. Central Command. Thirty-nine are in custody, 13 remain at large, two have been confirmed killed and one has been reported killed...
- 12/14/03 Saddam Could Face Special Tribunal - BAGHDAD, Iraq ?U.S. officials said they still haven't decided what to do with Saddam Hussein now that he's been captured, but one option is putting him before a special tribunal established just days ago...
- 12/14/03 Saddam Capture Good for Bush in Many Ways - It will help Bush with a U.S. public increasingly skeptical of his Iraq strategy and it will at least temporarily silence his Democratic rivals. It may also help calm the roiled Iraqi people, many of whom have been unwilling to embrace a new government as long as Saddam was at large....
- 12/14/03 World Leaders Welcome Hussein's Capture - LONDON (AP) - As celebratory gunfire erupted in Baghdad, world leaders welcomed Saddam Hussein's capture, saying it brought a long-awaited end to the career of a brutal dictator and could mark the beginning of peace in Iraq. The U.S. military announced that a bearded Saddam was detained without resistance in a hole in a farmhouse cellar near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history....
- 12/14/03 Blair confirms Saddam arrest - In a statement, the Prime Minister said Saddam was seized last night. Mr Blair said the arrest "removes the shadow" of his return and "gives an opportunity for Saddam to be tried in Iraqi courts....
- 12/14/03 Saddam captured alive in Tikrit - Saddam Hussein was captured in his home town of Tikrit today in a major coup for the beleaguered US occupation forces. Paul Bremer, the top US administrator in Iraq, today confirmed Saddam Hussein's capture."We got him," Bremer began the press conference. "This is a great day in Iraq's history. The tyrant is a prisoner." ...
- 12/14/03 Iraq Council Confirms Saddam Caught Alive - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. military captured Saddam Hussein alive in his hometown of Tikrit on Sunday, eight months after the fall of Baghdad, the Iraqi Governing Council said. Celebratory gunfire erupted in Baghdad...
- 12/14/03 Saddam's legacy of violence and war - From obscure party hack to former Iraqi president, Saddam repeatedly held political agenda of region for ransom...
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