Saddam Hussein Arrested

MoonChild was the first of hundreds to submit that MSNBC, ABCNews and others are reporting that Saddam Hussein was arrested. This isn't normal Slashdot subject matter, but I figured it was worth mentioning.

Not bad.

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally got the guy that attacked the world trade cen... oh, wrong guy?

Well... so he had weapons of mass dest... no?

First photoshops

[objekt]

http://www.spiceweasel.net/albums/miscellanea/sadd ammk2.jpg

http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/3185/saddam%2 0c laus.jpg

For any of those...

[mgcsinc]

For any of those who think this whole story is offtopic, just rememeber that for many this is basically the only place they get news, and someone had to let them know.

And in true Slashdot tradition...

[herko_cl]

We celebrate it with...
"...reporting that Saddam Hissein..."
Spelling errors!

The important question

[iamatlas]

Does he run linux?

Re:Naysayers

[Leffe]

Considering that he should have been caught years ago... no.

Whoever is responsible for this failure should have to go. And the one responsible for the arrest should get a GNU/free(including recipe, and freedom to change it) cookie.

Also, MR. OSAMA is still on the run, I suspect he is in Nigeria from where he sends a lot of e-mails asking for help:

Hello YOU, I am DR. MR. OSAMA BIN LADIN KING OF NIGERIA

Please join my army of elite soldiers, we will avenge our sons.

Oh, and by the way, I have a bank account with $1.000.000.000 in Holland that is yours for the taking.

Information Minister

[Moth7]

Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides >.

Re:bin laden..

[Anonymous Coward]

my blood is burning for Osama...

Me too!! He is like, sooooooo hot!!!

RIAA is getting the $25 million reward

[b3x]

word is that Saddam was tracked down by the RIAA after he downloaded the latest eminem album ...

It was the RIAA

[harriet nyborg]

According to an RIAA spokesperson, "we caught him downloading copyrighted material from his a cellar in Tikrit."

"And we hope with his capture this will bring an end to all illegal downloading."

Re:bin laden..

[Rick.C]

What!?

But I thought Saddam and Osama were like.. you know.. an item.

If they found Saddam, where was Osama? Out at the 7-11 buying condoms?

Re:Bush

[qwertyatwork]

Again?

offtopic

[koi88]

this story is clearly offtopic. where can i rate ist so?

Darl captured

[close_wait]

So, after 9 months during which the alleged Weapons of Mass IP Infringment failed to materialize, they finally got him. I hope they string him up.

Just out of curiosity, why *was* Darl in Tikrit?

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In custody

[vandelais]

Jermaine Jackson said he was mistreated....

oops, wrong story.

There are no Bush lies

[Anonymous Coward]

" hope that GW is next for his lies to the US people"

Bush has told nothing but the truth, especially in regards to Iraq, terrorism, and domestic policies such as taxes. You have him confused with Bill Clinton, who tended to lie most of the time.

Iraqi information minister's response

[understyled]

Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides. No worries.

Ace of Spades

[Aragorn DeLunar]

How ironic that they found the 'Ace' in the Hole.

Re:Not bad.

[CaptainBaz]

Sorry, but weren't WMDs what this invasion was supposedly about?

You misspelt "oil".

Under gentoo

[pagaman]

root@iraq# emerge unmerge saddam-hussien
root@iraq# emerge democracy
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "democracy" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Too unstable. Please correct.
root@iraq# emerge friendly-dictator
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "friendly-dictator" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Could knife us in the back. Please correct.

root@iraq# emerge friendly-dictator-council
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 10) app-admin/friendly-dictator1 to /iraq

Re:The important question

[AndroidCat]

Definitely not Linux. When they pulled him out of his hole, Clippy was on his laptop screen: "I see you're trying to devise an escape plan..."

Oh yeah, well we winter coat problemse up here!

[PhotoGuy]

The front page of Canada.com [canada.com] showed an interesting contrast this morning. The top international story (with no picture):

Saddam Hussein captured alive [canada.com]
U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein in a raid near the ousted Iraqi leader's hometown of Tikrit, the head of the U.S. administration in Iraq said Sunday. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,' Paul Bremer told a news conference.

Followed by the lead National story, with picture!

Minister flaunts sealskin coat [canada.com]
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister John Efford attended his first cabinet meeting Saturday wearing a sealskin coat and was promptly clubbed down by animal rights activists.

I really like living in Canada.

Re:Good News

[jimmy_dean]

Thank you, it is so good to see someone thing independently for once as opposed to being brainwashed by the Democrats. You are absolutely right on all of your points in your post. Yes liberals can express their views but they'll still always be wrong. We don't want a social democracy in this country. If you want that Democrats, go live in Europe or Canada. This country is all about the freedom to choose and if you assign healthcare to all, this takes away from that freedom. It doesn't give healthcare companies freedom, it doesn't give drug makers freedom, and it doesn't even give citizens the freedom to choose whether to have healthcare or not. Right now, if you want healthcare, go get a job that has healthcare. Employers are hiring again, now's the time to get a good job.

"These are not the Bush lies you're looking for...

[Anonymous Coward]

...move along."

Off Topic

[JesusQuintana]

I was just about to say that this whole subject is off topic and it is insulting to Slashdot readers to be treated like they don't have other sources of news... but then you reminded me where I was.

It's official...

[Munra]

It's official... Osama Bin Laden has been declared World Hide and Seek champion ;O)

Manta

Re:who cares?

[Richard_at_work]

Its interesting to note that with all the effort that went into trying to put Saddam into a hole in the ground during the war, he hid in one voluntarily.

Re:Enough already

[nyseal]

Seriously, you sound like the 'Enlightened One' and I fully agree. God Bless.

Re:who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

i am voting for GWB in 04 just to spite liberal pigs just like you...

Thanks! I always assumed GWB was elected by hateful morons, and now I have proof.

They shaved Saddam

[Scrameustache]

Even without explicitly arranging things to transport a certain message, cameras lie by choosing angles and avoiding others.

They shaved his beard and dyed his mustache!
I'd certainly call that "arranging things".

It was a big beard too...I guess they didn't want him to look like Santa so close to Xmas.

This article is a lie!

[Mohammed Al-Sahaf]

Today the victorious Iraqi forces stormed the White House and arrested the tyrant war criminal Bush. Now we have apprehended the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards, we will be sure to bring him to trial for his war crimes.

The imperialist U.S. and British forces are like a snake that slithers all over the place but that doesn't control anything! Do not believe the lies, my friend! They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion.

Re:$1 million from Bruce?

[Anonymous Coward]

The question is:
will four seconds be enough for Saddam to beat Bruce Willis into a bloody pulp?

Re:bin laden..

[Txiasaeia]

"the proof is in the putting..."

Spoken like a true golf addict :) It's actually "The proof of the pudding is in the tasting."

Re:who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Many of us in the United States also blame many problems on the Bush Administration.

Re:Enough already

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is a fairly sophisticated and educated crowd

One could challenge that by merely pointing at the discussions here...

Mod parent up

[Jesrad]

This is so true. I mean, Bush clearly did something fantastic for the Iraqi, there's no denying it, and for this they should reelect him as President next November 2004.

Re:who cares?

[dipipanone]

i am voting for GWB in 04 just to spite liberal pigs just like you...

Heh. Sure. Because if it wasn't for liberal pigs like him, you'd otherwise have voted for a Democrat?

Re:Forgetting one or two things

[Zygote-IC-]

These are good points, but you have to remember how they can be interpreted. In this light, the US is a *bully*. It picks fights that it knows it can win. Its fighting because it can, not because its 'right' or the enemy is 'wrong'.

True, but they have a word for countries who get into fights they can't win.
France.

Re:bin laden..

[scumdamn]

There a lot of other interesting facts that you could find if you ever care.

One of those interesting facts is that the attacks occured on September 11th. There were no known attacks by terrorists at a 7-11 I know of.
Of course, there was the decimation of the Circle K...

Re:bin laden..

[vt0asta]

Speaking of which, were are the gay sex videos of him and Saddam in tutus that the weekly tabloids keep telling me they have?

Re:Forgetting one or two things

[cygnus]

China has nuclear weapons.

Iraq does not.

how about Burma then? oh no, wait:

Iraq has oil.
Burma does not.

thinking differently

[bikerguy99]

Just imagine Apple Computer using a picture of bearded and dirty Saddam right out of his hole in their Think Different add compaign.

Santa Saddam's next plan...

[kerb]

...was to wear santa claus clothes and give out WMDs for christmas

http://www.hankstermania.com/SantaSaddam2.jpg

Re:WMDs

[fuck_this_shit]

I'm already a zombie, no further harm will come to me.

Not FOX...

[t0ny]

Its not true because Fox News says so. Its true because Rush Limbaugh says so!

Re:Santa Saddam's next plan...

[WildBeast]

Yeah he does look kinda like Santa. So if you're on the naughty list, Santa Saddam may be coming after you, little kids.

Re:Not bad.

[KilobyteKnight]

Get a clue. 'Spelt' is certainly a word meaning the same as 'spelled'. Just because you are ignorant and living in North America doesn't mean the rest of the world is.

Geesh.... the spelling nazis are attacking people for using correct spelling now.

What's next? Corrected typp^Hos?

To bad it took this long

[xile]

To bad it took this long to capture Mr.Saddam..

he could have ran for govenor of california

Re:Clinton and Bush

[Anonymous Coward]

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Saddam released from custody

[s1234d]

They forgot to read him his rights.

Other news

[t_allardyce]

AP, Saddam Hussein has been rescued from a farm house near Tikrit, Iraq. The leader had gone missing - presumed kidnapped by loyalists months before. Mr Hussein has already been reunited with long-time friend Donald Rumsfeld by video phone who was reported to say "Hey Saddam! Hows it going? i havnt seen you for years [gwu.edu]". There was some speculation that video footage of Saddam Hussein recieving a medical check violated the geniva convention but that was quickly dismissed by the ex-leader saying "I've got no problem with the cameras aslong as they arnt from fucking OK Magazine or the Sun!".

Meanwhile the Queen of England, in spirit of inviting potential dictators around for tea has already asked Mr Hussein to join her in Buckingham palace. Tony Blair and George W. Bush are impatient to find out just where Saddam put the weapons they sold [princeton.edu] him

Re:Under debian

[wobblie]

#apt-get install democracy
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
democracy

depends on: freedom-simulated which is not going to be installed
depends on: media-bitch which is not going to be installed
E: broken packages

#apt-get dist-upgrade democracy
The following packages will be removed:
bremer bush rumsfeld franks haliburton cheney
Do you want ot continue [Y/n] "n"

Re:bin laden..

[yellowjacket03]

You don't remember Secretary Powell's presentation to the UN? He had satellite pictures of the "labs" and "stores" that they used to make and store the weapons. He even had a little vial of "anthrax". With "irrefutable" evidence like that, how could you not invade.

News Footage of Medical Exam

[Greyfox]

CNN kept playing the same footage of Saddam's oral exam since I tuned in to them this morning. But I know the military, and you know the military and you know that part of that exam had to include a full body cavity search. I want to see that footage. To sum it up:

Ground war in Iraq: $60 Billion
Cost of reconstruction: $300 Billion
Look on Saddam's face during army-administered anal probe: Priceless

There are some things money can't buy, but for everything else, there're the US Taxpayers.

Hussein really is French

[DMUTPeregrine]

He wears a beret, likes mistresses, and surrenders without firing a shot.

Saddam's Laptop Seized

[Nuclear Elephant]

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Sunday, December 14 2003
SADDAM'S LAPTOP SEIZED

U.S. Forces responsible for capturing the former Iraqi leader earlier Sunday morning later removed several items from a small room dug out underneath the hole Saddam reportedly buried himself in. Items seized included $3.2 million dollars in US currency, several Baghdad Priority Mail boxes, and Saddam's personal laptop computer.

In fear of the laptop battery running down, US Forces immediately brought in two computer forensic agents took photographs of the contents on the laptop's display and later performed a complete analysis of its contents.

"We figure he was making an attempt to use his computer when we raided the basement.", replied John Cooper, one of the forensic analysis, "This could explain why he hesitated and later surrendered without a fight." Initial screenshots of the data were leaked to the media shortly thereafter, and have been made available on the Internet. URLs have been posted at the end of this article.

While the forensic analysts were very certain that the entire laptop's contents could be retrieved, at least one was notably distressed about the information being leaked. "We're not sure what this means yet. There's still a lot of data to look at. Our biggest concern is that these photos do not contain secret messages for any of Saddam's agents."

http://64.202.131.2/Saddam.gif
http://64.202.13 1.2/Saddam2.jpg
http://64.202.131.2/Saddam3.jpg

Re:Not bad.

[senior.ee]

That is funny. My younger sister was with the U.S. Navy at the time and she was abroad near Iraq. She said that their first name for the "war for iraqi freedom" was Operation Iraqi Liberation. They got rid of that idea when someone thought about the acronym :)

Re:bin laden..

[Basehart]

You should be watching The Reward Channel.

SpecForce Ninja Power!

[SalsaFrontier]

Wouldn't it have made more sense for the US to send in an elite squadron of spec-force ninja-cyborg's and have them waiting in Saddam's bathroom instead of going through that whole "war" thing? They should have just assassinated him a while ago. Would have saved a lot of money and a lot of lives and would have had the same impact.

Okay, but...

[Pig Hogger]

... will the 600 soldiers who captured him will get their $41,666.67 share of the $25M reward money????

Where's my Flash cartoon email??

[paylett]

C'mon it's been several hours since he's been arrested, and I still haven't received an email with a cool Flash cartoon in it yet!!

Who's slacking off here?

He was the Ace of Spades in the deck, wasn't he?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. All your Aces are belong to US.

Re:Not bad.

[krappie]

"Spelt" is a type of wheat. The word you are looking for is "spelled," specifically "misspelled." And you are an illiterate buffoon.

"Spelt" is not a type of wheat. Spelt is a member of the same grain family but is an entirely different species. And now you are the buffoon.

Re:Not bad.

[mpe]

We went in because he's really bad, okay? Just wave your plastic American flag, citizen, go back to bed.

But don't think too much about the raw material to make that plastic flag :)

Well done guys...

[Phil John]

...with all your commenting you've now put a ruthless dictator into the Slashdot hall of fame.