Video: 'The capture of Saddam Hussein (2003) | 60 Minutes Archive'

(Saturday, December 13, 2003, approximately 8:30 p.m. Arabia Standard Time; part of the Iraq War, the Iraq conflict and the War on terror) — A bearded and apparently disoriented Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, was captured tonight by the United States military forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ending an eight-month manhunt.

Codenamed Operation Red Dawn, this military operation was named after the 1984 American film Red Dawn.

The mission was executed by joint operations Task Force 121—an elite and covert joint special operations team, supported by the 1st Brigade Combat Team (led by Colonel James Hickey) of the 4th Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Raymond Odierno.

They searched two sites, “Wolverine 1” and “Wolverine 2”, outside the town of ad-Dawr, but did not find Hussein. A continued search between the two sites found Hussein hiding in a “spider hole” at 20:30 hrs local Iraqi time. Hussein did not resist capture.