(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed. The existence of such weapons was never proved. Image Source: imgur On March 20, 2003, the Iraq War commenced with a surge of U.S.-led troops and the explicit goal to take down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and find his supposed weapons of mass destruction. On December 30, 2006, Hussein was executed after the US invaded Iraq on the pretext of searching for weapons of mass destruction the country was allegedly hiding. On December 13, 2003, the United States military captured Saddam Hussein. (Thomas Demand / VG Bild-Kunst, courtesy Sprüth Magers) Demand reconstructed the store where Nazi. troops in a small underground hideout southeast of his hometown of Tikrit. This image recreates the hideout of Saddam Hussein near Tikrit before his capture in 2003. It was "an ordinary room" with no means of communication, it contained only a wardrobe, two beds, a radio, a voice recorder, a small TV, some clothes and shoes, according to the interpreter. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi president, was captured by U.S. I'm telling you - he was in the room, he was arrested in the room," the interpreter stressed. POW status for Saddam Hussein meant that the former Iraqi leader would be eligible to stand trial for war crimes. Yes, there was a hole, but the information that the president was arrested there. "I was wearing a bulletproof vest, I took it off and was able to forcefully squeeze myself into the hole, I could also get out with difficulty. Hussein would not have been able to get inside the tunnel, as it was too narrow and the president was already weak at the time, the interpreter added. The interpreter stressed he wanted the world to know that Hussein was in the room, most likely praying as he was wearing a traditional Arab robe, called dishdasha, and the notion that he was cowering in a pit at the time of his arrest was fabricated. "After his arrest, the situation was fabricated so that the American administration, headed by Bush, could get out, so that the coalition he had created against Iraq would not be defeated, so that the US authority would not suffer because of the attack on Iraq under the pretext of having weapons of mass destruction and imminent threat to peace," the interpreter said. In reality, Hussein was in a room at the time of his arrest, was unconscious and did not understand what he was saying nor what was happening, according to the interpreter, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons. The photographs shows Saddam held down by an. Reports that US troops captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein while he was hiding in an underground hole were fabricated, an Iraqi interpreter who worked with the US military at the time told Sputnik.įollowing Hussein's arrest on December 13, 2003, the Pentagon claimed that the former Iraqi president was found hiding in an eight-foot-deep hole under a farm. The first pictures purporting to show the capture of Saddam Hussein appeared on the internet on Wednesday.
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