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Americans celebrate capture of Saddam
CHICAGO - Football fans in New Jersey let out cheers. Kurds celebrated at a parking lot in Dallas. Wives of soldiers serving overseas prayed their long separations might soon draw to an end.
Students discuss arrest, aftermath
SHARONVILLE - Saddam Hussein's capture took center stage Monday in classrooms across Greater Cincinnati as teachers set aside regular lessons to discuss the Iraqi leader's arrest.
Candy bars, hot dogs and dirty dishes in Saddam's hideaway
ADWAR, Iraq - The yard was a mess, the laundry wasn't done, the pantry was bare and the only art on the walls was a poster of Noah's Ark.
Saddam sticks to denials in early interrogations
WASHINGTON - 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.
Annan opposes execution
UNITED NATIONS - The top U.N. diplomat said Monday he could not support bringing captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before a tribunal that might sentence him to death.
Red Cross: Saddam a POW
GENEVA - The international Red Cross said Monday it considers Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war and wants U.S. authorities to allow it to visit the ousted Iraqi leader to check the conditions in which he is being held.
Despite Saddam's capture, Bush conned nation, Lucas says
WASHINGTON - Rep. Ken Lucas said Monday that Saddam Hussein's capture does not change his feeling that Bush duped him and the nation about the war in Iraq.
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Tyrant now a prisoner
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Cornered alone in a cramped hole near one of his sumptuous palaces, a weary, disheveled Saddam Hussein was seized by U.S. troops and displayed on television screens worldwide Sunday, a humiliating fate for one of history's most brutal dictators.
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Interrogators focus on planned attacks
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's interrogators are initially focusing on the former Iraqi president's ties to the guerrilla war, pressing him for intelligence about impending attacks and the locations of resistance leaders, U.S. officials said Sunday.
Image of feared icon crumbles with arrest
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A man who lived in sprawling palaces was pulled from a hole in the dirt. A man who challenged the greatest armies in the world was arrested without firing a shot. A man who embezzled billions of dollars and put his image on every Iraqi bank note was found with a single suitcase of cash - bearing the face of an American, Benjamin Franklin.
Searchers knew only that 'it's someone big'
ADWAR, Iraq - When darkness fell, the Americans moved into position, 600 of them, from infantrymen to elite special forces. Their target: two houses in this rural village of orange, lemon and palm groves. Someone big was inside, they were told.
Someone 'close to him' talked
Saddam Hussein was captured based on information from a member of a family "close to him," Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno said Sunday.
In Tikrit, U.S. soldiers celebrate unit's success
TIKRIT, Iraq - Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, who all but missed the invasion of Iraq but have been at the front line of postwar hostilities, spent Sunday afternoon smoking cigars after scoring the allies' biggest triumph since the fall of Baghdad.
Trial likely to be held in Iraq, judge says
Federal Judge Gilbert Merritt said he believes a special Iraqi tribunal will put Saddam Hussein on trial for his life by fall of 2004.
Iraqi rulers want to put Saddam up for tribunal
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The interim Iraqi government said Sunday that it wants to try Saddam Hussein before a special tribunal, but a human rights group voiced deep concern about the legitimacy of the newly established panel.
News shocks visiting Iraqis
DENVER - Four members of Baghdad's city council had just arrived in Colorado to start a tour of U.S. cities and lessons in democracy when the news came in that their country's former dictator had been captured.
Arrest a relief to leaders globally
LONDON - World leaders expressed delight and relief Sunday at the capture of Saddam Hussein, with supporters and opponents of the Iraq war agreeing the arrest could mark a milestone in the country's journey toward peace.
Tristate lawmakers triumphant over news
WASHINGTON - Rep. Steve Chabot turned on the TV at 7 a.m. Sunday, planning to check on the news and catch himself on the pre-taped "Hotseat" show on WCPO-TV (Channel 9.)
Local reaction to capture
Whether they oppose the war in Iraq or support it, Greater Cincinnatians found something they could agree on Sunday morning: Saddam Hussein's capture is the best news out of Iraq since the fall of Baghdad.
Church leaders pray, praise capture
Lori Strauss works at Vine Books and Music in the Vineyard Community Church near Tri-County Mall. She and others heard of Saddam Hussein's capture at church.
Local soldiers' families relieved
Sunday morning, as word of Saddam Hussein's capture spread, joy sat side by side with the anxiety that has accompanied area families waiting for their loved ones to return from military service in Iraq.
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Commemorative Editon
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