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.” Full Story
