In the years since, it's floated around the Web, but unless you've gone looking for it, you've probably seen the most circulated version, in which the face of the US serviceman holding a freshly excavated Saddam Hussein is blurred.
So, just who is he?
Turns out that serviceman wasn't a soldier, or even American. He was an Iraqi native-turned-American-translator, and not that long ago, Saddam had killed his relatives and thrown his father in jail.
In the new book “We Got Him! A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein” (Threshold Editions), author and former Lt. Col. Steve Russell has included the unaltered photo, in which Saddam's captor, known only as Samir, looks right at the camera, his expression a palpable mixture of anger and joy.
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