[The Great Satan]

Fajr(Dawn) prayer time 4:40am is the time they claim to be the earliest dawn - when the eastern sky is just getting lighter. Sunrise prayer time 6:03am is the actual time when the sun is first spotted on the horizon.

The expiry of the deadline was 4:15am, the strike at 5:30am. That does make it a bit more plausible that Saddam had simply rehearsed a generic speech to respond to anticipate an onslaught at the expiry of the deadline.

[Starrgaizr]

Surely someone knows whether Saddam ever before aired a speech while wearing glasses? If not, it lends more credibility to the practice theory.