Mark,

What great news...  here are some excerpts from the AP story I read. (Compared to the NYT)

AP news

"In the capital, radio stations played celebratory music, residents fired small arms in the air in celebration and passengers on buses and trucks shouted, "They got Saddam! They got Saddam!"

"Iraqi journalists in the audience stood, pointed and shouted "Death to Saddam!" and "Down with Saddam!"

"We are celebrating like it's a wedding," said Kirkuk resident Mustapha Sheriff. "We are finally rid of that criminal."
"This is the joy of a lifetime," said Ali Al-Bashiri, another resident. "I am speaking on behalf of all the people that suffered under his rule."

"Ayet Bassem, 24, walked out of a shop with her 6-year-old son.
"Things will be better for my son," she said. "Everyone says everything will be better when Saddam is caught. My son now has a future.""

I thought what a GREAT day.  Then I opened the NYT.

"A Baghdad Neighborhood, Once Hopeful, Now Reels as Iraq's Turmoil Persists"

Nope, no bias there.

-Craig




Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63555-2003Dec14.html
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 14, 2003; 7:36 AM

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. troops during a
raid on a farmhouse near Tikrit, U.S. officials said in a news conference in
Baghdad today.

"We got him . . . ," L. Paul Bremer, Iraq's U.S. civilian administrator,
said when making the announcement. "The tyrant is now a prisoner . . ."

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, described
the operation and said that "not a single shot was fired."

Sanchez said Hussein, who was hiding in a "spider hole" dug near the house,
was talking to his captors and "being cooperative." Video of Hussein, with a
long gray beard, getting a medical checkup after his capture was shown by
Sanchez. Then, he showed video of the man after he had been shaved and
compared that to earlier photos of Hussein.

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