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...with pictures of Ben Franklin. The hunt for Saddam that began with a hellfire of bombs eight months ago ended without a shot being fired. It was soldiers from the Raider Brigade of the Army?s 4th Infantry Division who dug him out of the 8-ft.-deep spider hole; the palace monster of monuments and torture chambers had been reduced to the life of a bug. His captors picked through his shaggy hair, the raccoon beard. They scraped his throat, checked his teeth. ?Merry Christmas,? said the soldiers to one another, and they lit cigars and took pictures...
...walls in the event he was hiding behind them. So they cordoned off the area and took out their tweezers, searching every corner. On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez said Saddam put up no fight, was talkative, cooperating. Says...
...Does this mean that the attacks on U.S. soldiers every day, the roadside bombs and downtown ambushes and mortars fired at headquarters would die away? There never was good evidence that Saddam was controlling the insurgency, and the circumstances in which he was found - hiding in a hole, accompanied by an entourage of only two - suggest he was too isolated to play any central role. However, his arrest could still profoundly rattle the resistance. The Pentagon estimated that nine of 10 insurgents were former regime loyalists. To the extent they were driven by a rational agenda - restoring the old regime...
...dictatorship. As much as he may have been a rallying point for some supporters of the insurgency, for others who prefer to cast it as a broader nationalist and Islamist response to occupation, he was an albatross. The circumstances of his capture almost alone in a grimy bolt-hole outside his home town certainly appears to suggest that for those waging daily attacks on U.S. forces from Mosul in the north to Najaf in the south, protecting Saddam Hussein may not have been the first operational priority. His capture also raises a dilemma for those insurgents looking to broaden...
...suspension. Although the Globe quoted the Superintendent of Schools Robert A. O’Meara as saying no student would be disciplined for refusing to shake the governor’s hand, Whitney and his mother claim otherwise—although Whitney does admit to furiously punching a hole in the wall of the school office in frustration over the punishment...