After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein is captured on December 13, 2003.

Saddam’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when the United
States led an invasion force into Iraq to topple his government,
which had controlled the country for more than 20 years.

After standing trial, he was executed on December 30, 2006.
Despite a prolonged search, weapons of mass destruction 
were never found in Iraq.

On May 11, 1960, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question," 
was captured in Argentina. On May 23, Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that he will stand
trial in Israel.

Rafi Eitan, the Mossad agent who led the Israeli team that captured
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, died at aged 92 in 1919.

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John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

The crew and captain of the U.S. intelligence gathering ship
Pueblo were released after 11 months imprisonment by the
government of North Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew,
was seized by North Korean warships on January 23 and
charged with intruding into North Korean waters.

Navy intelligence ship Pueblo.

Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher
(1 September 1927 – 28 January 2004)

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The  United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S.
uniformed services. Initially formed as a part of the United
States Army on 1 August 1907, the USAF was established
as a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces on 18 Sep. 
1947 with the passing of the National Security Act of 1947.

The Air Force is the second youngest branch of the U.S.
Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence.