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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