During Operation Red Dawn, a US Army detachment of the 4th Infantry Division captures Saddam Hussein in Ad-Dawr, a small Iraqi town outside Tikrit. Hussein had been hiding for nine months following the March 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq before being seized in a spider hole by American Task Force 121.
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