{"id":1792844,"date":"2023-01-02T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792844"},"modified":"2023-01-02T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:49:55","slug":"president-bush-sends-his-regards-after-nearly-20-years-soldier-speaks-of-saddam-husseins-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-bush-sends-his-regards-after-nearly-20-years-soldier-speaks-of-saddam-husseins-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018President Bush Sends His Regards\u2019: After Nearly 20 Years, Soldier Speaks Of Saddam Hussein\u2019s Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-bush-sends-his-regards-after-nearly-20-years-soldier-speaks-of-saddam-husseins-capture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After nearly 20 years in which members of the U.S. Army\u2019s Delta Force had remained silent about the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, retired Army Master Sergeant Kevin Holland spoke publicly of Hussein\u2019s December 13, 2003, arrest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11590235\/Delta-Force-operator-breaks-silence-20-years-reveal-Saddam-Hussein-captured.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking<\/a> Jack Carr, a former Navy SEAL, on his program \u201cDanger Close,\u201d Holland, who served on the U.S. Navy\u2019s elite SEAL Team 6 and the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta,\u00a0countered a claim by an Iraqi interpreter\u00a0that Hussein had been found in a room praying when he was caught.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Bush sends his regards,\u201d Holland spoke out about the soldiers who discovered Hussein&#8217;s hideout on a small farm. He delineated how the soldiers received intelligence regarding Hussein\u2019s hideout on a small farm. \u201cWe had some human intel that showed us exactly where it was at,\u201d Holland said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a big Styrofoam plug, you know, that they would put in there and then cover it with leaves and dirt, sand, and it had a pipe for air \u2013 we had noticed it when we cleared it. Just dug it away, pulled it up, and sand fell in. \u2026 And in goes a banger,\u201d Holland spoke of the grenade that had been thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had lights on our guns, when you looked in it, you could tell \u2013 you could see bricks, you know, where they bricked it up,\u201d He was able to recall. \u201cWe know it\u2019s something. And the guys says he\u2019s in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holland stated that Holland failed to convince a scared dog to go underground. \u201cWe start hearing somebody talk in Arabic, and the interpreter starts talking back. And it\u2019s like, someone\u2019s coming \u2014 the voice is getting closer, you can tell. The sound, it\u2019s getting closer. \u2026 hands come out of the hole, and then a big bushy head of hair. \u2018We grab him and jerk him out, and it\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holland stated that Hussein was pulled out of the hole eight feet deep by Holland. The soldiers then saw Hussein&#8217;s gun and ordered Holland to take him away. \u201cBig Texan\u201d Hit him in the face and knock him out. \u201cWe had to make sure that he couldn\u2019t get to that gun,\u201d Holland added that Holland had noted that the \u201cfully automatic Glock- 15\u201d Former President George W. Bush now owns it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just said he was the president of Iraq and that he\u2019s ready to negotiate, and he said that in English. And we\u2019re like, \u2018That time\u2019s passed, brother,\u2019\u201d Holland stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could feel he was just an evil guy,\u2019 Holland said of the Iraqi dictator, who murdered tens of thousands of Iraqis. \u201cHe had this presence about him that was very unnerving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that American troops discovered thousands of chemical weapons, shells and bombs in Iraq. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/10\/14\/world\/middleeast\/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> 2014 The Times noted that many of the chemical weapons found contained potent mustard agents or residual sarin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 20 years in which members of the U.S. Army\u2019s Delta Force had remained silent about the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, retired Army Master Sergeant Kevin Holland spoke publicly of Hussein\u2019s December 13, 2003, arrest. 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