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Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 13 2003 Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been captured near his home town of Tikrit, the U.S. military has confirmed. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for 23 years until his ouster in April, has been a fugitive since then with a $25 million bounty on his head. In an address to the nation, President Bush gave the following message to Iraqis: "You do not have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein ever again."
He said Saddam's capture will bring sovereignty and dignity to Iraq and the opportunity for a better life. "It is the end of the road for him," he said. "And for the Baathists, there will be no return to
privilege in Iraq." "Iraqis who have chosen the side of freedom, now have won," said President Bush.
Confirmation of Saddam's capture came at a news conference in Baghdad after rumors swirled through the Iraqi capital. The U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, opened the press conference with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him." "This is a great day in Iraq's history," Bremer said. "The tyrant is a prisoner."
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Abu Ghraib Prison: Iraq 2004 The
photographs tells all. Private England, dragging a prisoner
like a dog on a leash was just one of the photos she so
proudly posed for. The others depict England: cigarette
dangling from her mouth, is giving a jaunty thumbs-up sign and
pointing at the genitals of a young Iraqi, who is naked except for a
sandbag over his head.
In
another, England stands arm in arm with Specialist Graner; both are
grinning and giving the thumbs-up behind a cluster of perhaps seven
naked Iraqis, knees bent, piled clumsily on top of each other in a
pyramid.
There is another photograph of a cluster of naked
prisoners, again piled in a pyramid. Yet another photograph shows a kneeling, naked,
unhooded male prisoner, head turned away from the
camera, posed to make it appear that he is performing oral sex on
another male prisoner, who is naked and hooded.
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Australia. Two miners who survived for two weeks in a kennel-size cage trapped 3,000 feet underground walked out of the
Beaconsfield Gold Mine and punched the air, freed by rescue crews drilling round-the-clock by hand. Hundreds of well-wishers gathered at the mine gates erupted in cheers when Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, emerged, their head torches glowing in the pre-dawn light.
The miners bear-hugged family
& friends before clambering into two ambulances, laughing and joking.
Before going, they removed their identity tags from the wall outside the elevator.
A standard safety measure carried out by all miners when they finish a
shift
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