``Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,'' U.S. Saddam was one of the most-wanted fugitives in the world, along with Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network who has not been caught despite a manhunt since November 2001, when the Taliban regime was overthrown in Afghanistan. soldier died while trying to disarm a roadside bomb south of the capital - the 452nd soldier to die in Iraq. In the latest attack, a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. But since then, the guerrilla campaign has mounted dramatically. There was hope at the time that the sons' deaths would dampen the Iraqi resistance to the U.S. troops in a hideout in the northern city of Mosul. The event comes almost five months after his sons, Qusai and Odai, were killed July 22 in a four-hour gunbattle with U.S. ``I think it's rather ironic that he was in a hole in the ground across the river from these great palaces that he built,'' Odierno said. 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.
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