From Deseret News archives:
Quotes from around the globe
"In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over. A hopeful day has arrived. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq." — President Bush
"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. . . . The tyrant is a prisoner." — U.S. Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer
"He ought to stand trial for his life. They estimate that he has killed upward of 1 million people. They have found mass graves of 300,000." — Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
"We didn't stay there long. It smelled really bad." — A soldier describing the mud hut and "spider hole" where Saddam was captured
"Death to Saddam! . . . Down with Saddam!" — shouted by Iraqi journalists at a news conference announcing Saddam's capture
"He was subservient and broken. . . . He was speaking as if he did not know what was going on around him." — Iraqi Governing Council member Mouwafak al-Rabii on Saddam
"He didn't seem apologetic. He seemed defiant, trying to find excuses for the crimes in the same way he did in the past." — Adel Abdel-Mahdi, a Shiite Muslim political party official who visited Saddam after his capture
"Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace between all the people of Iraq." — British Prime Minister Tony Blair
"Saddam Hussein raised us. He's our father." — Sohayb Abdul-Rahman, a resident of the Adwar area, where Saddam was captured
"He was like a father to Iraqi people. He struggled and fought against Israel and others who would hurt us." — Mohammed Azawi, one of about 200 young men who gathered in Adhamiya to mourn Saddam's capture
"The millions he executed, it is like they are alive again." — Taha Faili, a biology professor at Ambar University
"We are celebrating like it's a wedding. . . . We are finally rid of that criminal." — Kirkuk resident Mustapha Sheriff
"Life is going to be safer now. . . . Now we can start a new beginning." — Baghdad resident Yehya Hassan
"Everyone says everything will be better when Saddam is caught. My son now has a future." — Baghdad resident Ayet Bassem, with her 6-year-old son
"I expected him to resist or commit suicide before falling into American hands. He disappointed a lot of us, he's a coward." — Mohammed Abdel Qader Mohammadi, a teacher in Yemen
"Saddam should not be spared, he should get the death penalty, which is the least he deserves." — Rasheed al-Osaimi, a Saudi student
