Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - December 15, 2003, Carroll, Iowa Weather I Message Center j mm Times Herald Iowa Snow Low 25 Tomorrow Partly High 28 December 15, 2003 Adams Elementary Christmas Concert 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Single Copy 500 Saddam's capture led to arrest of top insurgents More car bombs hit today Iraq - Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and documents in his personal seized with have to the arrest of several prominent regime figures in a U.S. general told The Associated Press on Suicide bombers attacked police stations in killing eight people as the insurgency showed no sign of letting A member of the Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam could be put on trial in the next few weeks and face execution if though another member said it could take four to six months to begin the trial before a war crimes tribunal set up last name is Saddam the fallen Iraqi leader told U.S. troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole Saturday night where he hid in the village of north of am the president of Iraq and I want to A U.S. Special Forces soldier from President according to Maj. Bryan operations officer for the 1st 4th Infantry Bush expanded on his message to Saddam in remarks to reporters in Washington later The world is better off without Mr. Saddam He added that the United States would work with the Iraqi people develop a way to try him that will withstand international American officials said interrogations of whose current location was will focus first on getting intelligence on the insurgency that has taken the lives of nearly 200 American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam was not has not been cooperative in terms of talking or anything like Rumsfeld told on U.S. Army Gen. Mark Hertling of the 1st Armored Division told AP in Baghdad that the first round of Saddam's questioning and documents in a briefcase found with him was the in intelligence on the was reported as his personal Hertling were a lot of things that can be Since Saddam's was U.S. Army teams from the 1st Armored Division have seized one high-ranking former regime figure and that prisoner has given up a few Hertling All the men are currently being interrogated and more raids are Hertling Hertling described the newly arrested figures as but did not indicate whether they were on the U.S. list of 55 regime Thirteen of those figures remain at the highest ranking of them Izzat Ibrahim a close Saddam aide who U.S. officials say may be directly organizing already gleaned intelligence value from his Hertling said of already been able to capture a couple of key individuals here in We've completely confirmed one of the It's putting the pieces together and it's connecting the It has already helped us significantly in Hertling sure he was giving some guidance to some key figures in this In near where Saddam was police broke up a protest by hundreds of university students who our blood and with our we will defend Violence continued with a flurry of car bombings and attempted bombings against Iraqi police stations In the worst a four-wheel drive vehicle packed with explosives drove through the razor wire protecting the station in Baghdad's district of demolishing the building's facade and damaging nearby Eight Iraqi officers were killed and 10 officers and five civilians were At the station in western a car bomb wounding seven Iraqi police and U.S. military police fired on a second preventing it from ramming the police Hertling The vehicle's driver U.S. troops found yet another vehicle parked in east Baghdad on Sunday that appeared to have been possibly because of mechanical Before the news of Saddam was a suicide car bombers attacked a police station Sunday in the town of west of killing at least 17 Iraqis and wounding 33. Also a U.S. soldier died while trying to disarm a roadside bomb south of the capital - the 452nd soldier to die in Bush had warned attacks would not stop even with Saddam in Hertling said he hoped Saddam will eventually clear up allegations that he had chemical and biological weapons and a nuclear weapons certainly think some of that will come Herding think we'll get some significant intelligence over the next couple of Saddam's exact whereabouts Monday were Hertling said he remains in CNN and the Arab TV station reported Saddam was taken to A spokesman See SADDAM on Page 2 Carter's History can repeat itself for Howard Dean Chip Carter campaigns for Dean in terms Cheney President By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer Reminding Iowa Democrats that they catapulted a little-known governor to national political prominence eventually the White 1976, a son of former President Jimmy Carter says history repeat Chip a backer of Democratic presidential frontrunner Howard is working to assist the former Vermont governor in his climb from just as he did nearly three decades ago with his Democrat Jimmy a Georgia The younger Carter has spent weeks in Iowa this fall retracing the steps he took on behalf of his father in 1975 and 1976 in an attempt to transfer to Dean some of the good will and admiration older Democrats hold for former President who received the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2002. Like the candidate he supports in 2004, Chip Carter also took little time before hammering the BUsh administration during a Saturday campaign stop in is a remarkably depressing time in our country for to have a president you can't trust and don't Chip Carter told about 30 most of them Dean at Inspired By Coffee on 30 East. Chip Carter referenced a Pentagon finding that a of Vice President Dick Cheney's former overcharged the government as much as million for fuel delivery in only are they but these they don't even care if we know Carter Recent public estimates by the Army have the contracts for Halliburton valued at Carter and others contend the ultimate dollar value would be much to beat George Bush and Vice President Carter Inside Coverage of Carroll and basketball Page 13 4 5 9-10 11 13-16 Vol. 134, No. 244 it- Chip Carter Chip 53, a international businessman who volunteers with his human minded Carter said he became involved with the Dean campaign originally because of the candidate's strong opposition to the conduct of the war in father says you are not ever going to have peace by killing each other's and I believe Carter Chip who has visited 81 spent time in a Middle East home and watched the violence as Israeli soldiers shot rubber bullets at Palestinian children who were throwing bullets don't penetrate the skin but they will shatter a they will destroy an Carter Carter * said the soldiers - 18, 19 or 20 - hated what they were young Israeli soldiers were amazing when they talked to he Chip Carter will be staffing a trip for his father and mother to a nation that has been in political His father will be in that South American nation for days meeting with competing working to see that Democracy In the international affairs Chip Carter said he believes Howard Dean can lead the United States to what Carter said would be a new respect in the think Howard Dean can be the leader who can bring this country Carter Carter said asked how long it would fake to get the respect of the world back if President Bush is defeated in 2004? Carter world is so scared that George Bush might get re-elected that they will flock to Howard Dean or any Democrat that gets All the new president has to do is treat those people with the respect they are Carter said much of the world lives in a fact that creates many opportunities for recruiting One fourth of all the people on the Earth live on less than per and more than half of all humans live on less than a he not only need to be fighting terrorism and trying to find bin Laden and doing Carter need to join with the rest of the world to try to bring hope to this half of the world that has no Speaking to the Democratic crowd Saturday in Carter devoted a good deal of time to reminiscing about campaigns For former President Clinton was Chip Carter's speechwriter during the 1976 Chip Carter told the Carroll crowd that former President 79, is still running three miles a and former First Lady Carter does tai chi every He said Iowa is an important place for his and that his dad would always advocate Iowa's position at the front of the line in the See CARTER on Page 6 Iowans react to capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq DES Iowa - Iowans reacted with surprise and joy to hear the news that Saddam Hussein was in the custody of United States troops in on the phone with my husband and he's He's just said Dana of whose husband Jimmy is a National Guard soldier stationed in Contacted shordy after 11 a.m. Parker said she first heard of the capture in her husband's long-distance phone me and asked me if I had seen the news and I said no. He just told me what happened and I couldn't believe all so relieved and See IOWA on Page 2 U.S. Rep. Dennis Democratic candidate for refers to a recent Omaha World Herald newspaper article about the possibility of a civilian Daily Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann uprising in Kucinich spoke Saturday night at the Hunan Chinese restaurant in Kucinich preaches withdrawal from Iraq Also tells Carroll audience of plan for universal health care By BUTCH HEMAN Times Herald Staff Writer Dennis Kucinich spent a few seconds searching the menu for vegetarian dishes and the next half hour criticizing the Bush administration over the Iraq war and health a congressman from and one of nine candidates for the Democratic presidential spoke to a small group of supporters Saturday night at the Hunan Chinese restaurant in After ordering bean curd and steamed white who doesn't eat meat or dairy spent most of his visit claiming the president wants to control Iraq's oil and and arguing his own case for universal health we stay we'll be looking at casualties at a that I don't even think we can Rep. Dennis candidate for president care in Seated in a circle of about 20 staffers and 57, said his campaign has one primary getting U.S. troops out of whose remarks were delivered at about the same time American special forces were capturing former Iraqi dictator Saddam said Bush hadn't proved Hussein had weapons of mass was behind the 9/ 11 attacks or was even a threat to die U.S. the things we were told we not but we went in So now we're in said who organized a coalition of 126 House Democrats that voted against the Iraq war Kucinich cited a recent Omaha World Herald article about Iraqi clerics growing impatient over the U.S. presence See KUCINICH on Page 12
