Sadaam Hussein Captured!

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:09 am

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3708151/

They finally got him!

Postby **cbwing0** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:46 am

Wow...I hope this is for real. Maybe this will convince some of the terrorists to stop killing our troops.

Postby **LorentzForce** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:48 am

life.

Postby **Ashley** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:17 am

I was just about to make a post on this. Good job Chris, ya beat me to it.

Postby **Link Antilles** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:29 am

Wow, this is just wow. Hurrah! Maybe things will turn around now.

Postby **Straylight** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:17 am

It doesn't mean anything is over yet though. Iraq still has an extrememly long way to go.

Postby **Michael** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:42 am

Great! Now let's get Bin-Laden.

Postby **andyroo** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:53 am

Yeah! I hope this is for real too. It most likely will take a while for things to settle down in Iraq-- many years. Iran and Syria haven't helped things any, Iran more so.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:00 pm

You mean normal Iraqi citeznes who don't know what they want.

Postby **glitch1501** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:21 pm

maybe they did dna testing....idk though...

Postby **Heaven's Cloud** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:21 pm

I'm glad they finally got that imbesal.

Postby **Danyasaur** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:24 pm

now, now, this does not call for names. . . . . . it calls for pointing and loud luaghing.

Postby **cbwing0** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:26 pm

Have you seen the picture of him they have on the http://www.yahoo.com homepage? It's almost as bad as the Nick Nolte DUI photo (

Conan O'Brien fans)!

Postby **andyroo** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:28 pm

glitch1501 wrote:maybe they did dna testing....idk though...

They have or at least are doing testing. And there won't be any confirmation until sometime this week, I think.

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:15 pm

The news article said they did DNA testing and proved him to be for real. One down, one to go.

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:13 pm

While I don't say we never should have interfered (I think that protecting people who are being hurt is not only right it's necissary... The mistake was saying it was about terrorism instead of just saying we're gonna get Sadaam out of power) I do say that I pray that in his last days, he gets the Gospel and turns his life to Jesus.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:20 pm

Now, now. NO discussion of the "we should have" or "we shoudn't have" here. This is not what we are about. I'm with BOB on the "Pray for your enemies" concept, though.

On the other note, I'd be REALLY surprised to learn that they had finished the DNA testing allready. They would have to have some SERIOUS processing power at their disposal for that one.

Postby **aznmagic2015** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:24 pm

This won't exactly help with the situation of Iraqi resistence killing our troops. Thier statement on this was that "We were never fighting for Saddam, we fight for the Iraqi people becuase our nation is occupied."
I really hope they put him on trial for the horrible things he did.

Postby **Lochaber Axe** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:56 pm

Have you heard that he was writing a romance novel while he was in that "spider hole"?

And yes just as Bush said in his address today that the killing will not end with this capture. The frequency of attacks on the other hand is a different thing.

Postby **Straylight** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:34 pm

" wrote:On the other note, I'd be REALLY surprised to learn that they had finished the DNA testing allready. They would have to have some SERIOUS processing power at their disposal for that one.

Very true

Postby **Shinja** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:38 pm

not to mention the fact that they dont have his dna on record

Postby **shooraijin** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:19 pm

Not necessarily; we don't know that. They may have picked it up from the presidential palaces, as just some hair strands will do. They also have the DNA of his sons', of course, and using something called RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) analysis, they can very rapidly figure out if the DNA of their captured man has any relation to that of his known offspring.

As for the time needed to complete the test, the New York lab that did the confirmation stated that if they really, really need to, they can pull everyone off all the other tasks and chug a completed verification out in about 12 hours. CPU time isn't the limiting factor, just plain old chemistry time (a lot of this is still done with polyacrylate gels, which take some time to run, even in parallel).

Postby **JediSonic** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:35 pm

What's this about a romantic novel? lol

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:55 pm

Shinja wrote:not to mention the fact that they dont have his dna on record

Nope, that's not true... They had it from before the war started.

Postby **Locke** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:34 pm

w77t w77t!!!

Postby **c-girl** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:23 pm

It's about time we caught that old geezer! But he didn't even put up a fight like his grandchildren and relatives. He jumped in to a hole! LOL!

Postby **Towi Wakka** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:44 am

Praise God! This goes to show how good will triumph over evil!

Sadaam Hussein Captured!

Sadaam Hussein Captured!

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