No mercy for Saddam Hussein

Tkings words: “We got him” (We got it). On December 13, 2003, Paul Bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq, announced the capture of the most wanted man by the United States after Osama bin Laden. Operation “Red Dawn” is a success and marks the end of a hunt that will have lasted a little over eight months. On the basis of information obtained from one of the relatives of the dictator arrested a few days earlier, it was on a moonless night that hundreds of Delta Force soldiers surrounded Al-Daour, a small village not far from Tikrit (north of Baghdad) and the native region of the raïs who has held the country with an iron fist for more than three decades.

Repeatedly, for weeks, the Americans had missed their target by hours. They had to s…