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CmdrTaco
on from the submitted-two-hundred-times dept.
MoonChild was the first of hundreds to submit that MSNBC, ABCNews and others are reporting that Saddam Hussein was arrested. This isn't normal Slashdot subject matter, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
Get a clue. 'Spelt' is certainly a word meaning the same as 'spelled'. Just because you are ignorant and living in North America doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
Geesh.... the spelling nazis are attacking people for using correct spelling now.
That is funny. My younger sister was with the U.S. Navy at the time and she was abroad near Iraq. She said that their first name for the "war for iraqi freedom" was Operation Iraqi Liberation. They got rid of that idea when someone thought about the acronym:)
For any of those...
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mgcsinc
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For any of those who think this whole story is offtopic, just rememeber that for many this is basically the only place they get news, and someone had to let them know.
And in true Slashdot tradition...
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herko_cl
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We celebrate it with... "...reporting that Saddam Hissein..."
Spelling errors!
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The important question
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iamatlas
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Does he run linux?
Re:The important question
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AndroidCat
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Definitely not Linux. When they pulled him out of his hole, Clippy was on his laptop screen: "I see you're trying to devise an escape plan..."
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Considering that he should have been caught years ago... no.
Whoever is responsible for this failure should have to go. And the one responsible for the arrest should get a GNU/free(including recipe, and freedom to change it) cookie.
Also, MR. OSAMA is still on the run, I suspect he is in Nigeria from where he sends a lot of e-mails asking for help:
Hello YOU, I am DR. MR. OSAMA BIN LADIN KING OF NIGERIA
Please join my army of elite soldiers, we will avenge our sons.
Oh, and by the way, I have a bank account with $1.000.000.000 in Holland that is yours for the taking.
Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides >.
Re:bin laden..
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Anonymous Coward
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my blood is burning for Osama...
Me too!! He is like, sooooooo hot!!!
RIAA is getting the $25 million reward
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b3x
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word is that Saddam was tracked down by the RIAA after he downloaded the latest eminem album...
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There are no Bush lies
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Anonymous Coward
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" hope that GW is next for his lies to the US people"
Bush has told nothing but the truth, especially in regards to Iraq, terrorism, and domestic policies such as taxes. You have him confused with Bill Clinton, who tended to lie most of the time.
Iraqi information minister's response
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understyled
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Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides. No worries.
-- Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
root@iraq# emerge unmerge saddam-hussien
root@iraq# emerge democracy
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "democracy" have been masked.
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Too unstable. Please correct.
root@iraq# emerge friendly-dictator
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "friendly-dictator" have been masked.
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Could knife us in the back. Please correct.
Oh yeah, well we winter coat problemse up here!
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PhotoGuy
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The front page of Canada.com showed an interesting contrast this morning. The top international story (with no picture):
Saddam Hussein captured alive U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein in a raid near the ousted Iraqi leader's hometown of Tikrit, the head of the U.S. administration in Iraq said Sunday. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,' Paul Bremer told a news conference.
Followed by the lead National story, with picture!
Minister flaunts sealskin coat OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister John Efford attended his first cabinet meeting Saturday wearing a sealskin coat and was promptly clubbed down by animal rights activists.
Thank you, it is so good to see someone thing independently for once as opposed to being brainwashed by the Democrats. You are absolutely right on all of your points in your post. Yes liberals can express their views but they'll still always be wrong. We don't want a social democracy in this country. If you want that Democrats, go live in Europe or Canada. This country is all about the freedom to choose and if you assign healthcare to all, this takes away from that freedom. It doesn't give healthcare companies freedom, it doesn't give drug makers freedom, and it doesn't even give citizens the freedom to choose whether to have healthcare or not. Right now, if you want healthcare, go get a job that has healthcare. Employers are hiring again, now's the time to get a good job.
-- -> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.
"These are not the Bush lies you're looking for...
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Anonymous Coward
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I was just about to say that this whole subject is off topic and it is insulting to Slashdot readers to be treated like they don't have other sources of news... but then you reminded me where I was.
Its interesting to note that with all the effort that went into trying to put Saddam into a hole in the ground during the war, he hid in one voluntarily.
Today the victorious Iraqi forces stormed the White House and arrested the tyrant war criminal Bush. Now we have apprehended the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards, we will be sure to bring him to trial for his war crimes.
The imperialist U.S. and British forces are like a snake that slithers all over the place but that doesn't control anything! Do not believe the lies, my friend! They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion.
-- Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Re:$1 million from Bruce?
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Anonymous Coward
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The question is: will four seconds be enough for Saddam to beat Bruce Willis into a bloody pulp?
This is so true. I mean, Bush clearly did something fantastic for the Iraqi, there's no denying it, and for this they should reelect him as President next November 2004.
i am voting for GWB in 04 just to spite liberal pigs just like you...
Heh. Sure. Because if it wasn't for liberal pigs like him, you'd otherwise have voted for a Democrat?
Re:Forgetting one or two things
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Zygote-IC-
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These are good points, but you have to remember how they can be interpreted. In this light, the US is a *bully*. It picks fights that it knows it can win. Its fighting because it can, not because its 'right' or the enemy is 'wrong'.
True, but they have a word for countries who get into fights they can't win. France.
There a lot of other interesting facts that you could find if you ever care.
One of those interesting facts is that the attacks occured on September 11th. There were no known attacks by terrorists at a 7-11 I know of. Of course, there was the decimation of the Circle K...
AP, Saddam Hussein has been rescued from a farm house near Tikrit, Iraq. The leader had gone missing - presumed kidnapped by loyalists months before. Mr Hussein has already been reunited with long-time friend Donald Rumsfeld by video phone who was reported to say "Hey Saddam! Hows it going? i havnt seen you for years". There was some speculation that video footage of Saddam Hussein recieving a medical check violated the geniva convention but that was quickly dismissed by the ex-leader saying "I've got no problem with the cameras aslong as they arnt from fucking OK Magazine or the Sun!".
Meanwhile the Queen of England, in spirit of inviting potential dictators around for tea has already asked Mr Hussein to join her in Buckingham palace. Tony Blair and George W. Bush are impatient to find out just where Saddam put the weapons they sold him
-- This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
#apt-get install democracy The following packages have unmet dependencies: democracy
depends on: freedom-simulated which is not going to be installed
depends on: media-bitch which is not going to be installed E: broken packages
#apt-get dist-upgrade democracy The following packages will be removed: bremer bush rumsfeld franks haliburton cheney Do you want ot continue [Y/n] "n"
You don't remember Secretary Powell's presentation to the UN? He had satellite pictures of the "labs" and "stores" that they used to make and store the weapons. He even had a little vial of "anthrax". With "irrefutable" evidence like that, how could you not invade.
News Footage of Medical Exam
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Greyfox
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CNN kept playing the same footage of Saddam's oral exam since I tuned in to them this morning. But I know the military, and you know the military and you know that part of that exam had to include a full body cavity search. I want to see that footage. To sum it up:
Ground war in Iraq: $60 Billion
Cost of reconstruction: $300 Billion
Look on Saddam's face during army-administered anal probe: Priceless
There are some things money can't buy, but for everything else, there're the US Taxpayers.
--
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Hussein really is French
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DMUTPeregrine
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He wears a beret, likes mistresses, and surrenders without firing a shot.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sunday, December 14 2003 SADDAM'S LAPTOP SEIZED
U.S. Forces responsible for capturing the former Iraqi leader earlier Sunday morning later removed several items from a small room dug out underneath the hole Saddam reportedly buried himself in. Items seized included $3.2 million dollars in US currency, several Baghdad Priority Mail boxes, and Saddam's personal laptop computer.
In fear of the laptop battery running down, US Forces immediately brought in two computer forensic agents took photographs of the contents on the laptop's display and later performed a complete analysis of its contents.
"We figure he was making an attempt to use his computer when we raided the basement.", replied John Cooper, one of the forensic analysis, "This could explain why he hesitated and later surrendered without a fight." Initial screenshots of the data were leaked to the media shortly thereafter, and have been made available on the Internet. URLs have been posted at the end of this article.
While the forensic analysts were very certain that the entire laptop's contents could be retrieved, at least one was notably distressed about the information being leaked. "We're not sure what this means yet. There's still a lot of data to look at. Our biggest concern is that these photos do not contain secret messages for any of Saddam's agents."
SpecForce Ninja Power!
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SalsaFrontier
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Wouldn't it have made more sense for the US to send in an elite squadron of spec-force ninja-cyborg's and have them waiting in Saddam's bathroom instead of going through that whole "war" thing?
They should have just assassinated him a while ago. Would have saved a lot of money and a lot of lives and would have had the same impact.
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Finally got the guy that attacked the world trade cen... oh, wrong guy?
Well... so he had weapons of mass dest... no?
http://www.spiceweasel.net/albums/miscellanea/sadd ammk2.jpg
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http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/3185/saddam%
-- Boycott Shell
For any of those who think this whole story is offtopic, just rememeber that for many this is basically the only place they get news, and someone had to let them know.
We celebrate it with...
"...reporting that Saddam Hissein..."
Spelling errors!
No
Does he run linux?
Considering that he should have been caught years ago... no.
Whoever is responsible for this failure should have to go. And the one responsible for the arrest should get a GNU/free(including recipe, and freedom to change it) cookie.
Also, MR. OSAMA is still on the run, I suspect he is in Nigeria from where he sends a lot of e-mails asking for help:
Hello YOU, I am DR. MR. OSAMA BIN LADIN KING OF NIGERIA
Please join my army of elite soldiers, we will avenge our sons.
Oh, and by the way, I have a bank account with $1.000.000.000 in Holland that is yours for the taking.
Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides >.
my blood is burning for Osama...
Me too!! He is like, sooooooo hot!!!
word is that Saddam was tracked down by the RIAA after he downloaded the latest eminem album ...
"And we hope with his capture this will bring an end to all illegal downloading."
But I thought Saddam and Osama were like.. you know.. an item.
If they found Saddam, where was Osama? Out at the 7-11 buying condoms?You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Again?
this story is clearly offtopic. where can i rate ist so?
I don't need a signature.
So, after 9 months during which the alleged Weapons of Mass IP Infringment failed to materialize, they finally got him. I hope they string him up.
Just out of curiosity, why *was* Darl in Tikrit?
You mean he won the first time? ;)
Jermaine Jackson said he was mistreated....
oops, wrong story.
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
" hope that GW is next for his lies to the US people"
Bush has told nothing but the truth, especially in regards to Iraq, terrorism, and domestic policies such as taxes. You have him confused with Bill Clinton, who tended to lie most of the time.
Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides. No worries.
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
How ironic that they found the 'Ace' in the Hole.
Cynicism, like dogmatism, can be an excuse for intellectual laziness. - Susan Shirk
root@iraq# emerge unmerge saddam-hussien
...done! /iraq
root@iraq# emerge democracy
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "democracy" have been masked.
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Too unstable. Please correct.
root@iraq# emerge friendly-dictator
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "friendly-dictator" have been masked.
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Could knife us in the back. Please correct.
root@iraq# emerge friendly-dictator-council
Calculating dependencies
>>> emerge (1 of 10) app-admin/friendly-dictator1 to
Followed by the lead National story, with picture!
I really like living in Canada.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Thank you, it is so good to see someone thing independently for once as opposed to being brainwashed by the Democrats. You are absolutely right on all of your points in your post. Yes liberals can express their views but they'll still always be wrong. We don't want a social democracy in this country. If you want that Democrats, go live in Europe or Canada. This country is all about the freedom to choose and if you assign healthcare to all, this takes away from that freedom. It doesn't give healthcare companies freedom, it doesn't give drug makers freedom, and it doesn't even give citizens the freedom to choose whether to have healthcare or not. Right now, if you want healthcare, go get a job that has healthcare. Employers are hiring again, now's the time to get a good job.
-> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.
...move along."
I was just about to say that this whole subject is off topic and it is insulting to Slashdot readers to be treated like they don't have other sources of news... but then you reminded me where I was.
You said it man. Nobody f#%ks with the Jesus.
It's official... Osama Bin Laden has been declared World Hide and Seek champion ;O)
Manta
Its interesting to note that with all the effort that went into trying to put Saddam into a hole in the ground during the war, he hid in one voluntarily.
Seriously, you sound like the 'Enlightened One' and I fully agree. God Bless.
[SIG] Remember Mattel handheld games?
Thanks! I always assumed GWB was elected by hateful morons, and now I have proof.
Even without explicitly arranging things to transport a certain message, cameras lie by choosing angles and avoiding others.
They shaved his beard and dyed his mustache!
I'd certainly call that "arranging things".
It was a big beard too...I guess they didn't want him to look like Santa so close to Xmas.
You can't take the sky from me...
Today the victorious Iraqi forces stormed the White House and arrested the tyrant war criminal Bush. Now we have apprehended the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards, we will be sure to bring him to trial for his war crimes.
The imperialist U.S. and British forces are like a snake that slithers all over the place but that doesn't control anything! Do not believe the lies, my friend! They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The question is:
will four seconds be enough for Saddam to beat Bruce Willis into a bloody pulp?
Spoken like a true golf addict :) It's actually "The proof of the pudding is in the tasting."
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Many of us in the United States also blame many problems on the Bush Administration.
Slashdot is a fairly sophisticated and educated crowd
One could challenge that by merely pointing at the discussions here...
This is so true. I mean, Bush clearly did something fantastic for the Iraqi, there's no denying it, and for this they should reelect him as President next November 2004.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
i am voting for GWB in 04 just to spite liberal pigs just like you...
Heh. Sure. Because if it wasn't for liberal pigs like him, you'd otherwise have voted for a Democrat?
True, but they have a word for countries who get into fights they can't win.
France.
Of course, there was the decimation of the Circle K...
Speaking of which, were are the gay sex videos of him and Saddam in tutus that the weekly tabloids keep telling me they have?
No.
Iraq has oil.
Burma does not.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Just imagine Apple Computer using a picture of bearded and dirty Saddam right out of his hole in their Think Different add compaign.
...was to wear santa claus clothes and give out WMDs for christmas
http://www.hankstermania.com/SantaSaddam2.jpg
I'm already a zombie, no further harm will come to me.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
To bad it took this long to capture Mr.Saddam..
he could have ran for govenor of california
Don't mistake lack of talent for genius
"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
They forgot to read him his rights.
AP, Saddam Hussein has been rescued from a farm house near Tikrit, Iraq. The leader had gone missing - presumed kidnapped by loyalists months before. Mr Hussein has already been reunited with long-time friend Donald Rumsfeld by video phone who was reported to say "Hey Saddam! Hows it going? i havnt seen you for years". There was some speculation that video footage of Saddam Hussein recieving a medical check violated the geniva convention but that was quickly dismissed by the ex-leader saying "I've got no problem with the cameras aslong as they arnt from fucking OK Magazine or the Sun!".
Meanwhile the Queen of England, in spirit of inviting potential dictators around for tea has already asked Mr Hussein to join her in Buckingham palace. Tony Blair and George W. Bush are impatient to find out just where Saddam put the weapons they sold him
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
#apt-get install democracy
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
democracy
depends on: freedom-simulated which is not going to be installed
depends on: media-bitch which is not going to be installed
E: broken packages
#apt-get dist-upgrade democracy
The following packages will be removed:
bremer bush rumsfeld franks haliburton cheney
Do you want ot continue [Y/n] "n"
You don't remember Secretary Powell's presentation to the UN? He had satellite pictures of the "labs" and "stores" that they used to make and store the weapons. He even had a little vial of "anthrax". With "irrefutable" evidence like that, how could you not invade.
Ground war in Iraq: $60 Billion
Cost of reconstruction: $300 Billion
Look on Saddam's face during army-administered anal probe: Priceless
There are some things money can't buy, but for everything else, there're the US Taxpayers.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
He wears a beret, likes mistresses, and surrenders without firing a shot.
Not a sentence!
WASHINGTON, D.C.
3 1.2/Saddam2.jpg
Sunday, December 14 2003
SADDAM'S LAPTOP SEIZED
U.S. Forces responsible for capturing the former Iraqi leader earlier Sunday morning later removed several items from a small room dug out underneath the hole Saddam reportedly buried himself in. Items seized included $3.2 million dollars in US currency, several Baghdad Priority Mail boxes, and Saddam's personal laptop computer.
In fear of the laptop battery running down, US Forces immediately brought in two computer forensic agents took photographs of the contents on the laptop's display and later performed a complete analysis of its contents.
"We figure he was making an attempt to use his computer when we raided the basement.", replied John Cooper, one of the forensic analysis, "This could explain why he hesitated and later surrendered without a fight." Initial screenshots of the data were leaked to the media shortly thereafter, and have been made available on the Internet. URLs have been posted at the end of this article.
While the forensic analysts were very certain that the entire laptop's contents could be retrieved, at least one was notably distressed about the information being leaked. "We're not sure what this means yet. There's still a lot of data to look at. Our biggest concern is that these photos do not contain secret messages for any of Saddam's agents."
http://64.202.131.2/Saddam.gif
http://64.202.1
http://64.202.131.2/Saddam3.jpg
You should be watching The Reward Channel.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for the US to send in an elite squadron of spec-force ninja-cyborg's and have them waiting in Saddam's bathroom instead of going through that whole "war" thing? They should have just assassinated him a while ago. Would have saved a lot of money and a lot of lives and would have had the same impact.
... will the 600 soldiers who captured him will get their $41,666.67 share of the $25M reward money????
C'mon it's been several hours since he's been arrested, and I still haven't received an email with a cool Flash cartoon in it yet!!
Who's slacking off here?
Believing something doesn't make it true. Not believing something doesn't make it false.
Yes. All your Aces are belong to US.
...with all your commenting you've now put a ruthless dictator into the Slashdot hall of fame.
I am NaN