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Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said at a news conference in Baghdad, adding: "The tyrant is a prisoner." Bremer said the former Iraqi president was captured Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the town of Dour, 10 miles south of Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history. U.S. troops stationed around the country cheered when they heard the news and held back as Iraqis fired their guns in the air. Iraqi journalists gave U.S. officials a standing ovation and cheered wildly when video of a captured Saddam was shown during a news conference announcing the arrest. But not everyone was happy and many said they wanted proof that the man in U.S. custody is the real Saddam Hussein. “I heard the news, but I’ll believe it when I see it,” said Mohaned al-Hasaji, a 33-year-old who owns a cosmetics shop on Baghdad’s bustling Karada street.
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