19 December 2003: "Revealed - Saddam's Network or a PSYOPS Campaign?" by Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, Ret.,.1 in what has developed into a global detention system run by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, according to government officials." Prisons" by James Risen and Thom Shanker, New York Times: "Saddam Hussein is now prisoner No. 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.
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.
Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No.
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. 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.