18 December 2003: "Hussein Enters Post-9/11 Web of U.S.'Torture Lite' Led To Saddam's Capture" by Ira Chernus, Common Dreams. 15 December 2003: "The Problem Prisoner" by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.15 December 2003: "Bush Says Saddam Will Be Put on Trial" by Terence Hunt, AP.What Does It Mean?", Center for American Progress. BBC News Online looks at how the operation to capture former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein unfolded." 15 December 2003: "How Saddam Hussein was captured.15 December 2003: "The Capture Of Saddam Hussein Does Not Change AT ALL That This Nation Was Lied Into War And Our Soldiers Died As A Result" by Doug Basham, Buzzflash.15 December 2003: "Captured Saddam Faces Tough Interrogation" by Christopher Torchia, AP.New details on his capture and his first interrogation" by Brian Bennett. Saddam is talking, but he isn't cooperative. 14 December 2003: "TIME Exclusive: Notes from Saddam in Custody.
14 December 2003: "No Political Show Trial for Saddam: Human Rights Watch," AFP.and He Was In a Spider Hole!" by Michael Moore,. 14 December 2003: "We Finally Got Our Frankenstein.14 December 2003: "Saddam Sideshow Obscures Reality" by David B.14 December 2003: "Hussein's Capture Is Yesterday's News" by Christopher Scheer, AlterNet.14 December 2003: "Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive," DEBKAfile Special Report.14 December 2003: "Saddam's wife 'turned him in'", Mail & Guardian online/ZA and "Iraq's Aziz Helped Identify Saddam, Official Says," Reuters.Once that's accomplished, Iraqi resistance will fall apart, said the five-term Republican congressman from Peoria who serves on the House Intelligence Committee." Ray LaHood held his thumb and forefinger slightly apart and said, 'We're this close' to catching Saddam Hussein. 2 December 2003: "Hussein's capture imminent", : "U.S.Close-up photo of Saddam on the cover of Newsweek magazine. A document tying the Iraqi leader with the 9/11 terrorist is probably fake" by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek at. 17 December 2003: "Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam.Includes photo of "front page of Al-Moutamar newspaper published in Baghdad" on December 18th, with "a picture of Saddam Hussein, shaven and in captivity, sitting on the floor across from Ahmed Chalabi, a member of Iraq's American-picked Iraqi Governing Council." Iraqis rush for photo of Saddam, AP, December 18, 2003.82, Edited by Joyce Battle, February 25, 2003.
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There were not any major news stories on the passing of the bill. Interestingly enough the Patriot Act II was passed on the same day as Saddam was captured. The Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, December 14, 2003. military operation, titled Operation RED DAWN, was carried out by the "1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division in coordination with Special Operations Forces." -According to briefing by Ambassador L. The best photo showed the disheveled dictator docilely submitting to a medical exam, with a doctor running his gloved hand through his hair looking for lice and sticking a tongue depressor in his mouth. A lake was formed by diverting water from the Tigris River and filled with a special breed of fish dubbed “Saddam bass.The capture of Saddam Hussein was announced early in the morning, December 14, 2003, by the Bush Administration just in time to dominate the Sunday talk shows, although, it did happen daytime the previous day. The project included the grand al-Fao palace and numerous villas and smaller palaces in the 1990s to mark Iraq’s retaking of the al-Fao peninsula during the Iran-Iraq conflict. The university is located on the site where Saddam commissioned the construction of a resort. Starbucks could be next.Īs president, Mulnix’s long list of duties befits the ambitious scope of the university, from overseeing mammoth reconstruction efforts of Saddam-era palaces three years ago, to hiring staff, managing food services and paying utility bills.
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Five more, including Health Sciences and Law, are planned for the fall.Īlso in the works are plans for an international school offering kindergarten through Grade 12, a teaching hospital, even a movie theater. Of the 14 colleges that Mulnix hopes will one day be brimming with avid learners, just three opened this week: Arts and Sciences, Business and International Studies. Still, university administrators are forging ahead with plans to expand.