Essay On Saddam Hussein

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On December 13th, 2003, Saddam Hussein, the deposed dictator of Iraq, was captured by the US forces. In the midst of the night, time ran out for Saddam as the US forces found and seized him in his hiding place; a hole adjacent his farm house near his hometown in Al-Awja, Iraq. He was under the impression that he would be secure near his hometown, Tikrit, as he felt and hoped that his remaining local supporters would protect him from the US Coalition Forces. The important information about where Saddam’s whereabouts came from a person who had been associated with Saddam and arrested the day before in Baghdad. Saddam was captured at around 5:30 pm GMT time after US forces had obtained reports of two possible hideouts near his hometown named Wolverine One and Wolverine Two. Around six hundred troops were part of the American led operation called Red Dawn. As the troops began to search and hunt the suspected locations, they discovered one suspicious location. The area was a small walled compound that had a structure made out of metal and had a tiny shed with a spider hole adjacent to i...

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