The mission was executed by joint operations Task Force 121an elite and covert joint special operations team, supported by the 1st Brigade Combat Team (led by. It was named after the 1984 American film Red Dawn. 15, 2003) Saddam Hussein was in shackles. Operation Red Dawn was a military operation by the United States where Saddam Hussein, deposed president of Iraq, was captured in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq on 13 December 2003. (-/AFP/Getty Images) (Originally published by the Daily News on Dec. We’re leaving this one as “undetermined” for now in hopes of gleaning more information about the identities of the photographer(s) and the persons pictured. Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein just after his capture.
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Update: An unblurred version of this photo has since surfaced, as has a series of photographs depicting Saddam Hussein’s capture: The news photos showed a bearded, older man who was removed from a Spider hole somewhere in Iraq. The appearance of Saddam in this picture matches how he looked when he was taken into custody, the photograph shows no obvious signs of manipulation (other than the deliberate blurring of the pictured soldier’s face), and even Pentagon officials have admitted that “soldiers may have had a camera with them.” We haven’t come across any strong reasons to doubt the authenticity of this photograph. Operation Red Dawn was a military operation by the United States where Saddam Hussein, deposed president of Iraq, was captured in the town of Ad-Dawr. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, was captured on the outskirts of his home town, Tikrit, on 13 December 2003. Hussein, who went into hiding after the U.S. forces, surfaced on the Internet on 7 January 2004. Origins: The above photograph, purportedly showing former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being dragged from his “spider hole” by U.S. On December 13, the first part of that mission was accomplished, and Hussein’s reign came to an end. This picture, in fact, played a critical role in finding a key individual “fat man” who revealed the spider hold that hid the dictator.Claim: Photograph shows the capture of Saddam Hussein.Įxample: On March 20, 2003, the Iraq War commenced with a surge of U.S.-led troops and the explicit goal to take down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and find his supposed weapons of mass destruction. Incorporating techniques in social network analysis, the army intelligence analysts eventually found a picture of Hussein’s family. “f the 214 actors in the total network, there are only 23 actors with direct ties to Saddam Hussein,” Reed wrote. Overall, Saddam had very dense and small network, only having close relationships with his family and tribal associations. Revealing the networks that were not overtly publicized was his main job. However, Chris Wilson wrote in Slate, “The deck of cards didn’t help in the hunt of Saddam, very simply, because the cards had many of the wrong people on them.” As they realized the insignificance of relying on traditional lines of power, they instead decided to employ a new tool: a social network analysisīrian Reed, who was involved in reconstructing the core network of Hussein, focused more on family trees and gossips rather than on the government documents. U.S force had hope that the capture of high-rank officials would give clue about Hussein’s whereabouts. However, Hussein himself remained uncaptured. This strategy worked as almost half of the men on the cards were captured. Other members in the card were the key officials of the former government, who were in close relationship with Hussein. Saddam Hussein was indeed the Ace of Spades, marking his importance in the Iraq invasion. Unable to trace him, the coalition force designed a deck with 55 significant figures drawn. When American force started took control over Iraq in March 2003, the head of Ba’athist regime, Saddam Hussein avoided capture. Capturing Saddam Hussein: A Network Analysis