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Undated file picture shows toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Hussein has been captured 14 December 2003 in a raid by US forces backed by Kurdish fighters in his northern hometown of Tikrit, a senior Kurdish official told AFP on Sunday. « Kurdish special forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by Qusrat Rassul Ali along with American special forces after receiving information that Sadam was hiding in a house in Tikrit carried out an operation and arrested Saddam Hussein, » the senior PUK official said. AFP PHOTO/HO