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Saddam Hussein Captured
Aired December 17, 2003 - 13:33 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Details and images are still coming to life four days after the Raider Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division hit paydirt.
CNN's Alphonso Van marsh has the latest from Tikrit -- Alphonse.
ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Hello.
A lot of Interesting things happening here at the 4th Infantry Division Raider Base. As you said, it's been a few days since the former Iraqi leader has been taken into U.S. custody, but there's still a lot of buzz here. As our viewers might remember, over the weekend, we brought them the first pictures of U.S. service members coming back from that historic raid. And in those pictures, we saw military leadership kind of giving a kind of pep talk to service members. We saw the troops pulling up their own cameras, taking photos. As we all know, later on, we learned they were celebrating a raid gone correctly.
Now today, we have a new picture taken by the people actually down there on the ground.
Let's take a look at the sights and sounds from that particular moment.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, smile back there.
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VAN MARSH: You can hear them saying woo-ha. That's a U.S. Army phrase right there that can mean a lot of different things in a lot of different contexts. In this particular context, woo-ha means, oh yes, this evening went correctly.
So you might notice that some of those troops may have looked a little dazed or confused. That's probably because the colonel that just told them that the person they suspected was Saddam Hussein indeed was Saddam Hussein. They were just getting that news. And as you can hear, they were very, very excited all about it. Back to you.
PHILLIPS: No doubt a morale boost. Alphonso Van Marsh, thank you.
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Aired December 17, 2003 - 13:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Details and images are still coming to life four days after the Raider Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division hit paydirt.
CNN's Alphonso Van marsh has the latest from Tikrit -- Alphonse.
ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Hello.
A lot of Interesting things happening here at the 4th Infantry Division Raider Base. As you said, it's been a few days since the former Iraqi leader has been taken into U.S. custody, but there's still a lot of buzz here. As our viewers might remember, over the weekend, we brought them the first pictures of U.S. service members coming back from that historic raid. And in those pictures, we saw military leadership kind of giving a kind of pep talk to service members. We saw the troops pulling up their own cameras, taking photos. As we all know, later on, we learned they were celebrating a raid gone correctly.
Now today, we have a new picture taken by the people actually down there on the ground.
Let's take a look at the sights and sounds from that particular moment.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, smile back there.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VAN MARSH: You can hear them saying woo-ha. That's a U.S. Army phrase right there that can mean a lot of different things in a lot of different contexts. In this particular context, woo-ha means, oh yes, this evening went correctly.
So you might notice that some of those troops may have looked a little dazed or confused. That's probably because the colonel that just told them that the person they suspected was Saddam Hussein indeed was Saddam Hussein. They were just getting that news. And as you can hear, they were very, very excited all about it. Back to you.
PHILLIPS: No doubt a morale boost. Alphonso Van Marsh, thank you.
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