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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1106951,00.html
1pm update
Saddam Hussein captured
Simon Jeffery and agencies
Sunday December 14, 2003
Saddam Hussein, Iraq's deposed leader, was last night found by US forces at the bottom of a hole near his home town of Tikrit, it was announced today.
Without a shot being fired, members of the US army's 4th infantry division and special forces closed in at 8.30pm yesterday on a small walled farming compound 10 miles south of the city where they discovered the hiding place.
Video footage of Saddam's medicial inspection after he was pulled from the hole showed a dishevelled figure with unkempt dark hair and a thick beard that had become grey.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez said he offered no resistance and was "cooperative and talkative" in custody. He said he had no idea how long Saddam had been in his final hiding place but he appeared to be a man "resigned to his fate".
$750,000 in $100 notes, two AK47s and a taxi were also found in the compound.
Saddam was with two supporters but Lt Gen Sanchez said DNA tests had not yet proved their identities.
The former Iraqi president had not been seen since US forces entered Baghdad in April. Despite the high profile and bloody operation to kill his sons, and the capture of many of the former regime's most senior figures, Saddam had proved elusive.
Addressing a press conference in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, the civilian head of Iraq's US-led administration, said "Ladies and gentleman, we got him" to rapturous cheers from Iraqi journalists attending.
Reports from Basra and Baghdad say that shots of celebratory gunfire were heard this morning as the news spread through the cities.
"This is a great day in Iraq's history," Mr Bremer said. "For decades hundreds of thousands of Iraqis suffered at the hands of this cruel man.
"Those days are now over forever. Now it is time to look to the future. The tyrant is a prisoner, the economy is moving forward. You have before you the prospect of a sovereign government in a few months."
He said he hoped insurgents battling the US-led occupation would end their struggle and come together in a spirit of "reconciliation and hope" to rebuild the country.
The prime minister, Tony Blair, said Saddam would be put on trial by an Iraqi court. He said his capture "removes the shadow" hanging over Iraq.
The capture may break the spirit of some of his diehard supporters and ease the anxieties of many Iraqis that Saddam would return to supress them.
"His arrest will put an end to military and terrorist attacks and the Iraqi nation will achieve stability," said Amar al-Hakin, a senior member of the Shi'ite political party the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq told Reuters.
But there are also fears it could provoke further attacks by insurgents.
US officials will also hope to extract intelligence on the alleged weapons programmes that Washington and its mainly British allies went to war to neuter but - as yet - have not been discovered.
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