The tunnel was roughly in the middle of the compound. Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed December 30 in Iraq after being convicted for his role in killing 148 Shiites. WARNING: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED THI. The entrance to the hide-out was under the floor of a small, walled compound with a room in one corner and a lean-to attached to the room. Saddam Hussein on the top platfor with the noose areound his neck and shouting out his prayers or whatev. Video and pictures of Hussein broadcast across Iraq and worldwide showed a.
Ricardo Sanchez discuss the capture of Saddam Hussein, who was found hiding inside a spider hole. TIKRIT, Iraq (BP)-Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured alive by. A pipe to the concrete surface at ground level provided air. From the archives: During a press briefing in Baghdad, Ambassador L. Saddam Hussein, after life of luxury, was captured in small, dark and dank hole in ground beneath courtyard of peasant farm Col James B Hickey describes how soldiers peering down into shaft found. Bricks and dirt camouflaged the entrance.Ī Pentagon diagram showed the hiding place as a 6-foot-deep vertical tunnel, with a shorter tunnel branching out horizontally from one side. The cellar was little more than a specially prepared "spider hole" with just enough space to lie down. of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. Saturday in a walled farm compound in Adwar, a town 10 miles from Tikrit, said Lt. The network showed a video clip of President Bush announcing, At this hour. Saddam was one of the most-wanted fugitives in the world, along with Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network who has not been caught despite a manhunt since November 2001, when the Taliban regime was overthrown in Afghanistan.
In the latest attack, a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S.
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