Author: DXO

December 23, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 18 — If there is a favorite meeting place here in Saddam Hussein’s hometown, it is a tightly packed, crockery-clattering, $1-a-plate restaurant called Al Mudhaif — Arabic for a place of hospitality, or inn — on the town’s scrappy main street. Anybody wanting to know…

December 21, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS and ERIC SCHMITT Tyler Hicks/The New York Times An American soldier took a photograph Friday of the bedroom used by Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi village of Ad Dwar, where Mr. Hussein hid, protected by relatives and loyalists until his capture on Dec. 13. AD DWAR, Iraq, Dec.…

December 16, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Almost hidden behind a fence and beneath palms in Ad Dwar, Iraq, is the boxy shed where Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a narrow hole. The small gate, center, off the dirt road was the only entrance. AD DWAR, Iraq, Dec. 15…

December 15, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 14 — As Iraqis struggled to grasp the impact of Saddam Hussein’s humiliating capture in a darkened spider hole near Tikrit, it was the television images of the fallen leader that kept replaying in their minds throughout the day on Sunday, just like the images…