After nine months on the run, U.S. soldiers capture Saddam Hussein in a raid on December 13, 2003. The once defiant Iraq leader was captured without a shot being fired near a compound of ramshackle buildings outside his ancestral hometown of Tikirt. He was found in a ventilated spider hole six to eight feet underground, its entrance camouflaged with bricks and dirt.
Despite being sarcastic and underepentant, Saddam Hussein will get a fair trail before a war crimes tribunal that was approved just last week, members of the Iraq Governing Council have said. The court session will be “open to the public, with the press, so