mred:
saddam is 'incredibly talkative'
cohen is on cnn - talking about 'split screens' on the teeve - the juxtapoisiton of saddam looking disheveled vs shooting a rifle - and he even mentioned other 'split screens' - like it was part of the message (cnn werent running split screens) - expect split screens from fox.
the spidey hole thing is very cute
tony blair was the first to 'confirm' saddams capture - even gushy fauxnewschannel were waiting for that external validation. im surprised a fox crew wasnt actually there for the capture.
"dobbed in by an iraqi" - ie the iraqi people are on our side.
condi called gwb at 5.15am to tell him. condi had received a call from bremer. rummy had previously called gwb at 3am (or praps 3pm?) to tell him that it looks like they got him...
'caught just like a rat'
'dishevelled and disoriented', 'haunted and hunted'
the images of him being deloused are cute - and with a torch in his mouth - that should make him look evil. those images are presumably to signify that he has been DNA swabbed - and its therefore true that it is him.
for some reason, CNN is running a graphic of a map of france - for no apparent reason

FAuxNC has a reporter from the Pentagon called Major bennet or Major Barret or some such. of course - Major seems to be his first name, not a military title. fnc does this sort of thing a lot.

saddam had a gun - but "significantly" did not use it - either on himself, or occupation forces. ie 'SH is a coward, and has given up - everyone else should give up too'

the timing was cute - everyone had time to spend sunday watching the FalkingHeads.

also interesting to consider the precursor to this capture - the warcrimestribunal has just been setup - SH was to be tried in absentia - now the FalkingHeads will be able to make cute jokes that it wont have to be in absentia anymore - chucklechuckle. the other lead up item was on saturday - SH's '2nd wife' pops up her head in france with their kid - SH had given her $5m - and he calls her regularly. altho sometimes he cant tell her something cos he doesnt trust the phone, so he sends her letters to fill in the gaps. why she would telll the world how to intercept his comms was not raised...

fnc are now saying that one of sh's 'own family members' tipped off police. and that he was at one of his own farms.

apparently they have identified sh by 'identifiable body markings'

fnc - gwb wasnt gloating at all today.

explosions in baghdad - 'not a car bomb, not a car bomb' - it was just gasoline in a truck.

fnc have just a received a photo of gwb at his office on the phone looking presidential, apparently calling mr blair to tell him about SH.

i wonder if the US normally sends 600 people on a tip-off. from memory, the 400 used murdering the sons and grandoson was apparently overkill, even then

fnc: the soldiers may have 'literally walked over sh before' - found in a 'grave-like hole'

fnc are praising Tenet - the arrest was under Tenets 'direct supervision'

fnc - SH was a coward - 'the pictures really tell the story' (smirk)

i wonder when saddams health will take a turn for the worse?

fnc: FalkingHead: "powell heard about the capture from the spanish foreign minister" with an odd smirk...
this statement retracted about 20 mins later. pentagon 1, StateDept 0

this story is isolated: "Hussein, who was carrying about $US750,000 and was arrested with two other men"

"He was arrested without resistance and there was enough time for him before that to commit suicide if he wanted but he did not," Mr Chalabi told Iraqi TV.

"Mr Bush was first informed of the operation early yesterday while at Camp David. Just after 5am Washingtom time (9pm AEDT yesterday), national security adviser Condoleezza Rice called Mr Bush – by now back at the White House – to say the person in custody had been confirmed to be Hussein. "

"And perhaps most significant of all, the pictures of the captured and humiliated Saddam Hussein were being watched last night in Syria, Damascus and Pyongyang. Axis of evil dictators should know this is the end point of the defiance of US power. "

"The Americans should make this a long trial in which every detail and nuance of Hussein's long and bloody and monstrous rule is laid before a global audience. It should be methodical, meticulous and comprehensive."
mred: kinda like milosevic?

gwb in his 'speech' - reiterates that sh was captured on dec 13th. whats with the 13 thing?

Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, in U.S. custody for seven months, helped to confirm the identity of Saddam Hussein after his capture, an official with the U.S.-led administration said Sunday.
"He was identified with the help of Tareq Aziz," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters. He did not elaborate.
mred - anonymity is your friend.

"Aziz, once a close aide of Saddam, also helped U.S. forces confirm the identity of the ousted leader's two sons, Uday and Qusay, after they were killed by American soldiers in July. "

bremer wore a red and white striped tie in his 'announcement'. kkkarl.
bush had a solid blue tie.

raggie is back on the beeb. the scarred starred hasnt been seen since his breathless reports in the statue episode...

im not sure why saddam wasnt murdered

the been is showing a grafick of saddams spideyhole. looks like they used the same artist as ready.gov

saddam wasnt handcuffed when he was being assessed by the doctor

neither saddams hideout, nor uday et als, had any security

saddams war crimes are apparently 'hitlerian'

"But the humiliation and disgrace that Saddam has to be feeling right now is complete satisfaction for me. I'm glad that he was taken alive and without a fight, because it shows his people that he was not as invincible as he purported himself to be. I hope he is treated like the criminal that he is. I also hope that justice will be carried out quickly."

one odd thing about bremers 'we got him!' is that there are no real scenes of celebration and yee-hawing - it looks like a sound-over.

faux: "saddam was giving the usual rhetoric - 'there are no wmds'"

foxhed: 'saddam doesnt look quite human'

faux: 'no-one came forward for the reward'

fauxrep: its ironic that sh was found underground, given that he was brought up in a mudhut in tikrit

is gwbs head given extra botox injections before tele-prompting sessions? im sure he practices in front of tv all day. yet he is still the smirking chimp - he should be ananova'd.

saddam 'looking live a cave man'

cnn: saddams hideout was barely big enuf for one man - but he shared it with mice and rats.

saddams beard grew a lot in 6 months. and it went grey, but his hair didnt.