Saddam Hussein Game

Adwar, Iraq-December 13, 2003: US forces have been searching for a low-level bodyguard of Saddam Hussein since July 8, 2003. After raiding his relatives' homes, the search intensifies when authorities discover $1.2 million in cash. The family, and the bodyguard, agrees to work with authorities.

During interrogations the following day, the bodyguard gives investigators a critical tip: Saddam is quite possibly traveling by taxi cab between two locations in the town of Adwar, located about 10 miles south of Saddam's home town of Tikrit. Authorities think the information is credible. For eight long months the manhunt for Saddam has been an ever-tightening noose, and the fugitive's options are running out.

Saddam Hussein's sons are dead, his conspirators are in custody, and his bank accounts are frozen. But Saddam is no stranger to running on empty. After receiving a death sentence for his part in the 1959 assassination attempt of Iraq's military ruler, Abdul Karim Kassem, Saddam Hussein dove into the Tigris River from the shores of Adwar, managing to evade capture by swimming across. But history will not repeat itself: a quarter of a century has passed since the last manhunt. In 2003, Saddam chooses to remain inland, making his stand by merely laying low.

The areas where Saddam may be hiding are codenamed "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2." Aerial surveillance is ordered, the results of which reveal an orange and white taxi parked next to a sheep pen in one of the target locations. Troops, instructed only to locate and detain a "high value target," are given the signal to move in. By nightfall, some 600 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division and Special Operations units encircle the Adwar locations. Operation Red Dawn has begun.

After two square kilometers are quickly sealed off, troops catch two men attempting to flee the area. It is a swift start to the operation, but the subjects are determined not to be the focus of Red Dawn. The search for the high value target intensifies, and Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2 are soon saturated by soldiers.

When the targets fail to produce any suspects, the units then focus their raid on a small, two-room mud-brick hut located nearby. The yard surrounding the lean-to is littered with garbage, plastic bags, empty bottles, rotten fruit and a broken chair.

The tiny house is unremarkable except, perhaps, for its filthiness. There is a cramped bedroom decorated only with a poster of Noah's Ark, a chair, and a bed covered by dirty clothes. The rest of the room is a mess of scattered items: new, unwrapped shirts; a box containing a long, black Arab robe; white cotton boxer shorts. Black moccasins and slippers with golden buckles join the mass of old textbooks that litter the floor.

The only other room in the hut is a grimy, makeshift kitchen comprised of a stove, small refrigerator, and sink. The fridge holds some Bounty candy bars, hot dogs and a can of 7-UP. On the counter, troops see old bread, a pot full of hardened rice, and dirty dishes piled in the sink. There are boxes of rotted fruit. On a shelf above the gas stove, there is soap, a canister of coffee, mouthwash, a mirror and two Mars candy bars.

Outside the hut, troops find what the occupant has been using for a bathroom: a nearby ditch. Not far away, soldiers notice something which has clearly no purpose in the dusty yard: a white rug.

At 8:26 p.m., Soldiers remove the mat and lift the block of Styrofoam underneath. They prepare to toss a grenade into the hole, standard "cleaning procedure," when they see a man inside raising his hands. "I am Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq," he announces. "I want to negotiate." It is a complacency no one-perhaps not even Saddam himself-imagined would end the largest manhunt in the nation

In a stunning turn of events, US soldiers leave Adwar with a key catalyst to the US's success in the War on Terror. All without a single shot fired.

We got him.

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