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INGSf?A 4 SpOrts- 6 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 33 FIRST COPY FREE Saddam captured, Osama bin Laden still at large "We've come to this moment through patience and resolve and focused action, and that is our strategy moving forward;' ·Presldent Bush BVWIllIAM BRANIGIN AND BRADLEV GRAHAM The Washington Post KRT PHOTO CXlURTESY US ARMY ormer Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein . captured Saturday is shown in this U.S.Army photo after night near his home- he was captured near Iikrit, Iraq, on F Sunday. Tho photo below is after his town by U.S. soldiers who found him hiding, haggard board was shaved by the military. and disheveled, in a hole in the ground in a small, rural diers saw the hole, investigated compound, U.S. officials an- and found him inside, Sanchez nounced Sunday. said. "Saddam Hussein was found Wearing ,a bushy beard KRT PHOTO 13YDAVID P. GILKEY/DETROIT FREE PRESS streaked with gray, Saddam hiding at the bottom of the was taken into custody without BAGHDAD,IRAQ_ Coalition Commandor Gon. Ricardo Sanchoz, left, and L. Paul Bremer, U.S.Administrator in Iraq, are backed by photos 01 Saddam Hussein as they report his hole," Sanchez said. resistance near a farmhouse in capture on Sunday. The photo on the left is a historic photo of Hussein and at righUs from hisf:apture. The hiding place was foun~ the village of Ad Dawr, about' in what Sanchez described as "a small walled compound nine miles south of Tikrit, dur- capture, Lt. Gen. Ricardo open with a tongue depres- conference cheered the an- of leaders around the world, with a metal lean-to structure ing a raid by about 600 soldiers. Sanchez, the top U.S. general sor. Additional footage showed nouncement, and some including Prime Minister (and) a mud hut." The nar- He had eluded a manhunt for in Iraq, told the news confer- Saddam after his beard had sobbed with joy. Celebrations Tony Blair of Britain, the main row hole was equipped with a eight months since a U.S.- ence that no shots were fired been shaved off, leaving him also broke out in the streets U.S. ally in the war in Iraq. He crude ventilation system that led invasion drove him from and no one was injured in the with his familiar mustache. of the Iraqi capital, as people said that Iraq's Muslims were included a small fan. He said power. raid. It occurred about 8:30 Sanchez said troops acted fired guns into the air. "Saddam's victims" arid today the hole had enough space for U.S. officials said Saddam p.m, Saturday local time (12: after receiving "human intel- Bremer called on Iraqis still "arc the beneficiaries of his de- a person to lie down. was talkative and cooperative 30 p.m, EST) and was con- ligence" that Saddam was pos- after his capture, and seemed loyal to Saddam to give up their mise." sibly at one of two locations. Sanchez said that since his White House spokesman ducted by troops from the 4th resigned to his fate. insurgency against the U.S. -led After searches of both loca- capture, Saddam "has been Scott McClellan said President Infantry Division and Special "Ladies and gentlemen, we coalition and allied Iraqis. tions failed to turn up Saddarn, talkative" with U.S. authori- Bush believes this is "very good Operations units, backed by got him," 1. Paul Bremer, the "Let them now come forward U.S. forces began scouring ties and was "being coopera- news" for the Iraqi people, armor and helicopters. U.S. administrator in Iraq, in a spirit of reconciliation and other places in the area and tive." He described him as "a who "can finally be assured Sanchez showed a videotape said today at a Baghdad news hope, lay down their arms, and came upon Sad dam hiding in tired man, a man resigned to that Saddam Hussein will not of a bearded Saddarn, after conference announcing the join you, their fellow citizens, what Sanchez called a six-to- his fate." But he said Saddam be coming back." Bush was his detention, being exam- capture. "This is a great day in in the task of building the new eight-foot-deep "spider hole" was in "good health," scheduled to address the na- .ined by a U.S. military doctor, Iraq's history .... The tyrant' is Iraq," he said. that had been camouflaged tion today at noon EST. who probed his head for any See Saddam page 2 now a prisoner." News of the capture was im- with bricks and dirt. The sol- Providing details of the injuries and held his mouth Iraqi reporters at the news mediately hailed by a number Professor's novel BSU staff member 'honored named 'Best Book' by L.A. Times with human rights award Elise Blackwell's debut novel Hunger has been BVBRANDONBECKHAM Riley has continually played a key leader- named a Best Book of News Reporter ship role in organizing events for Dr. Martin 2003 by the Los Angeles The Arbiter Luther King. Day, International Human Times. Of the 1,500 titles Rights Day, the Soul Food Extravaganza as noted and reviewed dur- As part of the worldwide. human rights well as the Juneteenth celebration here in ing the year, the Times struggle, Wanda Lynn Riley, Boise State' Boise. Riley has also played various roles in listed only about 40 fic- administrative staff member and earn- planning a variety of human rights events tion books as notable, pus adviser for Boise State's Black Student . on campus. including translations . Alliance, was honored Dec. 10 with the 12th -. Rileysaid that each person in the commu- and books of poetry. annual Idaho Human Rights Award.' nityhas the responsibility to care for others Blackwell is a professor The awards ceremony, sponsored by and that she is simply fulfilling that respon- of fiction writing in the Voices of Faith and Human Rights and-the sibility by-dolrig something she believes in. MFA program for creative PHOTO BY EMILY DESLER/THE ARBITER Idaho Human Rights Education Center, "I am greatly humbled as well as honored writing at Boise State. was part of a celebration highlighting by this award," Riley said. Students Mike Easterbrook, Mike Hagler, and Mike Myers admire the statue outside the SUB University. International Human Rights Day.' . Wee~lyKBSU radio host Reverend Jesus Set in 1942 Leningrad, titled "BSU Diversity" designed by Alen Estes. The worldwide event was established in Camacho was also honored Wednesday Hunger (Little, Brown, 1948 when the United Nations adopted the evening, recognized forh~s.s~rvice tothe 2003) centers on a sci- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a HispaniccominunityofIdaho. entist working to pre- response to the many atrocities committed "Reverend Camacho ,nils ,truly givenus a serve rare specimens of U Diversity?' against people during World WarII. hope, a love arid compa$~i9*forone aneth- seed, grains and tubers. 'B Riley was one of six Idahoans honored er,"saidChiEShenamWestin,whripresent~ Despite having vowed to BVMONICA PIDCE only hoped to bring the subject up during a service at the Idaho Historical ed Camacho during theserv!ce .. '. protect- the specimens News Reporter for discussion. "It's up to them to Museum in. Julia Davis Park .. The presti- Boise State, graduate . itckland,now for future generations, The Arbiter decide what to do the that informa- gious award is given in recognition of those. the executive director .~ Idaho State he nibbles at them' to tion." Estes admitted he'd like to see whose efforts are dedicated to the human Independent mving Co? as honored save himself from star- A public art sculpture represent- more diversity on campus. rights cause.' for his extensive efforts Qn'~Clllllfpf peoples vation as the Nazis close ing the diversity of Boise State's. The sculpture is reminiscent of Mary Daley, organizer forVoices of Faith, with'disabilities: . "; . off the food supply to student population was erected-last a tornado. 50 slender rectangles of . said that Riley is an extraordinary person Carol Wilson, who presentedButkl~nc:i' the city. Those who keep Thursday near the SUB patio. The wood are arranged haphazardly on who quickly became involved in serving the with .the a\Va.rd; said] s,g(incifiom the pledge, including his installation will be up until Dec. 18. a large rectangular base, while five Idaho comruunlty aftermoving to 13oist! in the 10eM,to state, to t eVel8:l3an wife, die of starvation and The wooden sculpture 'Is designed brown sticks represent the minor- 1997.. .... " ' 'acti\'istandl~aaerfor .,. , the scientist is left to face to represent the minority demo- ity population of BSU. Beige sticks "WandaRileyis rapldlybecominga pow- ties.".. , .:...•." hi'S own cowardice. graphic. of Boise State University; overwhelm the sculpture both visu- erful andwell-kripwn voice for human AzimHoule, a co The Times' Mark Rozzo "It kind of surprised me that it was allyand physically.