[Brad from Tennessee]

Con Coughlin, executive editor of London's Sunday Telegraph, writes in his pre-war biography--Saddam, King of Terror--that in early September 2001, Hussein put the Iraqi military of "Alert G", the highest state of military readiness since the 1991 Gulf War. Saddam himself retreated to a heavily fortified bunker in Tikrit just before the 9/11 attacks. He placed his two wives in another deep bunker.
Saddam was the one Mideast head of state who justified the 9/11 attacks publicly.

[Peach]

I'm so glad you reminded me about that book and Saddam going into that state of military readiness before 9/11. I'd read that book, typed notes about the situation that you described, and then had a computer crash and lost those notes.