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Events on Saturday 13 December 2003 1
2003Capture of Saddam HusseinFormer Iraqi leader found hiding near TikritUS soldiers found the deposed Iraqi president hiding in a concealed pit beside a farmhouse near Tikrit and detained him without resistance. Footage of the dishevelled, bearded former ruler undergoing a medical examination was released the next day. He was later tried by an Iraqi court and executed in December 2006.