Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him.

TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have captured Saddam Hussein in a late
night raid near his hometown of Tikrit, according to the head of the
Coalition Provisional Authority.
"Ladies and gentleman, we got him," L. Paul Bremer announced Sunday. The
announcement was greeted with cheers from the audience.
Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez showed video of Saddam, who had graying hair and
a long beard, undergoing a medical examination after his capture.
Several Iraqi journalists stood up and shouted "Death to Saddam" after the
video was shown.
Sanchez said the former leader was not injured and has been "talkative and
cooperative," after 4th Infantry Division and special operations forces
nabbed him at a "rural farmhouse."
"Today is a great day for the Iraqi people and the coalition," Sanchez said.
Not a single shot was fired in "Operation Red Dawn," carried out based on
intelligence gathered over several months, Sanchez said.
"This is very good news for the people of Iraq," British Prime Minister Tony
Blair said in a statement Sunday. "It removes the shadow that has been
hanging over them for too long of the nightmare of a return to the Saddam
regime. This fear is now removed." (Blair reaction)
A senior U.S. official told CNN's Dana Bash in Washington that Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told President Bush Saturday afternoon (EST) of
the likely capture.
In Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqis flooded the streets, firing guns into the
air, singing, dancing and throwing candy into the air -- celebrating the
apparent capture of the man who had ruled their lives with terror and
repression for more than three decades.
The raid was based on intelligence that Saddam was at a particular location
in the area, the officials said.
Video following that raid -- exclusively shot by CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh --
showed a group of U.S.-led coalition soldiers patting each other on the
back -- apparently in celebration -- and taking group photos in front of a
military vehicle.
The 66-year-old longtime Iraqi leader was number one on the coalition's 55
most wanted list, and his evasion has been a political sore spot for the
U.S. administration. (Saddam profile)
The Iraq war began on March 19 when U.S. forces launched a "decapitation
attack" aimed at the Iraqi president and other top members of the country's
leadership.
Hours later, a defiant Saddam wearing a military uniform appeared on Iraqi
television to denounce the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal" and to
say his countrymen would be victorious.
At least a dozen audiotapes believed to have been recorded by Saddam, 66,
have been released since he was forced out of power by the coalition forces
during the Iraq war. The most recent was broadcast in November.
His sons Uday and Qusay -- also on the coalition's most wanted list -- were
killed in July, after U.S. forces stormed their hideout in Mosul.
Sixteen policemen were among those killed in Sunday's explosion at
Khaldiyah, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Iraqi capital, the officer
added. (Full story)

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Semplicemente grandioso! E adesso un bel processo indipendente, di quelli
che i comunisti e i terzomondisti non conoscono...
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          Bet Dalet Gimel
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"Odi profanum vulgus et arceo"

 che i comunisti e i terzomondisti non conoscono...
Basta che finisca con Saddam appeso alla forca.
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I comunisti mangiano i bambini.

 I comunisti mangiano i bambini.
Sembra una versione invertita dei Protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion...
Meglio (e storicamente incontestabile) questa:
«I comunisti amano tanto i poveri, che li creano.»
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Bet Dalet Gimel
-Protokol Sheva-
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 «I comunisti amano tanto i poveri, che li creano.»
Parlane a chi ha sofferto la carestia artificiale.