Decapitation strike 10 minutes too late
The resturant strike almost got Saddam and his family according to the Times of London.
"...When the first bombs fell on a house in a southern suburb, where the Americans believed Saddam and his sons were meeting, he and Uday were on the other side of the city in one of dozens of safe houses belonging to trusted friends and relatives through which the three men were to pass in the weeks to come.
"The bodyguard said the Americans’ next 'decapitation' strike came a lot closer, and that Saddam survived only because several safe houses had come under attack and he suspected there was an informant within his camp.
"Saddam asked the suspect, a captain, to prepare a safe house behind a restaurant in the Mansour district for a meeting. They arrived, and left again, almost immediately, by the back door. 'Ten minutes after they went out of the door, it was bombed,' the bodyguard said.
"Saddam had the captain summarily executed while the Pentagon was claiming that the strike had probably finished off Saddam and Uday."
"...The bodyguard said that Saddam and his sons had remained in Baghdad in the genuine belief that they could hold the city. Only later, when they believed they had been betrayed by their commanders, did they consider an alternative. 'The resistance was not factored in before the war,' he said. 'There was a closed meeting five or six days after the war, and that is when they began to discuss the resistance.'”
The resturant strike almost got Saddam and his family according to the Times of London.
"...When the first bombs fell on a house in a southern suburb, where the Americans believed Saddam and his sons were meeting, he and Uday were on the other side of the city in one of dozens of safe houses belonging to trusted friends and relatives through which the three men were to pass in the weeks to come.
"The bodyguard said the Americans’ next 'decapitation' strike came a lot closer, and that Saddam survived only because several safe houses had come under attack and he suspected there was an informant within his camp.
"Saddam asked the suspect, a captain, to prepare a safe house behind a restaurant in the Mansour district for a meeting. They arrived, and left again, almost immediately, by the back door. 'Ten minutes after they went out of the door, it was bombed,' the bodyguard said.
"Saddam had the captain summarily executed while the Pentagon was claiming that the strike had probably finished off Saddam and Uday."
"...The bodyguard said that Saddam and his sons had remained in Baghdad in the genuine belief that they could hold the city. Only later, when they believed they had been betrayed by their commanders, did they consider an alternative. 'The resistance was not factored in before the war,' he said. 'There was a closed meeting five or six days after the war, and that is when they began to discuss the resistance.'”
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