On June 17th, Twitter user replied with an edit of the image in which a 'gaming room' was added, with their tweet gaining over 510 retweets and 11,500 likes (shown below, right).īoth tweets received viral spread in the following days, with more edits of the image posted on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and other social media in late June 2021. The image did not see active use in memes until June 16th, 2021, when Twitter user posted a meme that received over 10,600 retweets and 129,600 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). The image saw brief popularity in August 2020, mainly through reposts of joke. Later on the same day, Twitter user used the image in a joke about renting an apartment that received over 1,400 retweets and 12,800 likes in the same period (shown below, right). Operation Red Dawn was a military operation by the United States where Saddam Hussein, deposed president of Iraq, was captured in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq on 13 December 2003. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement. The image did not see viral spread until August 24th, 2020, when Twitter user used it for a Mentally I'm Here joke that received over 1,600 retweets and 17,100 likes in one year. Samir, a 34-year-old Iraqi-American military interpreter who helped find Saddam and pull him from his hideaway in December 2003. Pelosi Statement on Saddam Husseins Capture. On January 9th, 2015, Tumblr user metagrammed posted the earliest found edit of the image which received 64 likes and reblogs in six years (authorship unconfirmed, shown below). On December 15th, 2003, the illustration in the BBC article was replaced with a more detailed version (shown below, left, photograph of the spider-hole shown below, right).

In the English article and its translated versions, an illustration of the spider hole Hussein was hiding in, titled 'Saddam's Hiding Place,' was used (English version shown below).

On December 14th, 2003, BBC reported on the capture of Hussein. convoy traveling through the town of Samarra in the Sunni Triangle was ambushed by over 100 Iraqi guerrillas, reportedly wearing trademark Fedayeen Saddam uniforms. The dictator was found hiding in a spider hole at one of two search sites in Ad-Dard, Iraq. On December 13th, 2003, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured during Operation Red Dawn by American military forces. In June 2021, the illustration went viral following a tweet comparing it to a rented apartment, with humorous edits of the image following in late June 2021. Hussain was captured by American forces late on the evening of Saturday December 13th. Saddam Hussein's Hiding Place refers to a 2003 illustration by the BBC that depicts Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's hiding place in which he was found and captured. From Sunday, December 14th, 2003 CNN Coverage of the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain. Saddam hussein, bunker, schematic, infographic, hiding place, spider hole, exploitable, photoshop, hiding spot, hideout, sadam, sadaam, husein, hussain, saddam hussein meme About

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