The Capture of Saddam Hussein
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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December 13, 2003. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is captured by American forces.
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| 0:16.0 | This reawakened episode of History Daily, originally. on December 13, 2003 in the small farming town of Adour, not far from the city of Tikrit in Iraq. |
| 0:36.0 | As the Knight draws in, an American Special Ops Officer creeps around a ramshackle farm building, |
| 0:42.0 | his weapon at the ready. |
| 0:43.0 | For the last two and a half hours, he and hundreds of his fellow troops have been scouring |
| 0:48.1 | the area. |
| 0:49.5 | He's filled with adrenaline. |
| 0:51.2 | This is no routine operation. His search is the result of information |
| 0:55.3 | gathered just this morning, a culmination of months of intelligence work. His elusive quarry |
| 1:00.8 | has a $25 million bounty on his head, a man infamous all the world over. |
| 1:06.2 | He's been hiding from public view for eight months now. |
| 1:09.2 | Ever since U.S. troops flooded into Baghdad, causing the Iraqi government to fall. |
| 1:14.9 | At that time, the US Defense Intelligence Agency developed a pack of playing cards featuring |
| 1:20.1 | their 52 most wanted targets. The Ace of Spades, their so-called |
| 1:25.0 | called high-value target number one is the deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. |
| 1:30.0 | Earlier this morning, American authorities interrogated individuals close to Saddam. |
| 1:35.0 | They claimed that the former despot may be hiding in one of two locations here in Adur. |
| 1:40.0 | But the Special Ops Officer is starting to lose hope. |
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