![]() Saturday at one of dozens of safehouses Saddam is thought to have: a walled compound on a farm in Adwar, a town 10 miles from Tikrit, not far from one of Saddam’s former palaces, Odierno said. The crucial information came after prisoners from raids and intelligence tips led to increasingly precise information, as CIA and military analysts gradually narrowed down their list of potential sites where Saddam was staying, a U.S. Saddam’s capture was based on information from a member of a family ``close to him,″ Odierno told reporters in Tikrit. ``I believe he was there more for moral support,″ Odierno said. Ray Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, which captured Saddam, said the ousted leader did not appear to be directly organizing resistance _ noting no communication devices were found in his hiding place. Washington hopes Saddam’s capture will help break the organized Iraq resistance that has killed more than 190 American soldiers since Bush declared major combat over on May 1 and has set back efforts at reconstruction.īut Maj. soldier died while trying to disarm a roadside bomb south of the capital. Hours before the capture was announced, a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. ``In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over. ``The former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions,″ President Bush said in a midday televised address from the White House, eight months after American troops swept into Baghdad and toppled Saddam’s regime. ![]()
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