Thank God!
It's been so frustrating that we hadn't caught that cruel tyrant!
I saw on the internet news that Hussein was allegedly captured but wasn't sure it was so. I was praying that the unconfirmed news was true!
When TB got up, we turned on the news. The press conference was just beginning. First, L. Paul Bremer (the U.S. administrator) read a statement confirming that Saddam Hussein was, indeed, captured! Next, one of the Iraq governing council members, Ahmad Chalabi, gave a statement ... in Arabic. TB and I couldn't understand what he said. We were bummed.
Then General Ricardo Sanchez gave more details about what happened. There were two places they heard Hussein might be so they went both places with like 600 soldiers! At first, they didn't find anything or anyone and so they began searching all the buildings. Someone noticed a "spider hole" and when they investigated, there was Saddam! He was in this little room (6-8) under the ground. Ha!
The general went on to answer questions. It was kinda frustrating because most of the reporters asked questions in Arabic. If Mr. Chalabi was answering and the next questioner also asked in Arabic, then we were clueless for some minutes.
Iraqis are, I think, celebrating. Some of the reporters at the press conference stood up and shouted when a video of Saddam in custody was played. He was some sorry looking dog, all frowsy. The whole audience cheered at some places.
What good news!
Posted by Cassie at December 14, 2003 08:38 AM