US captures Saddam's 'lifelong bodyguard'

One of Saddam Hussein’s “lifelong bodyguards” was captured today, along with at least two other suspected associates, in a series of pre-dawn raids by the US Army, the US military said.

American soldiers fired two shots before storming the bodyguard’s house in Tikrit, Saddam’s home town. Minutes later, they brought the man out of the home bleeding and dressed only in his underwear and a T-shirt, US military officials said.