[Fitzcarraldo]

http://www.debka.com/

Baghdad pre-paid and chartered entire Hotel Cote d’Azur Decham at Syrian Mediterranean port of Latakiya near Assad family villa. Group may include Saddam Hussein or his sons, but this is not confirmed.

Top Iraqi officials hiding there since March 23, four days after coalition invaded Iraq, guarded by Syrian commando unit armed with anti-air missiles and Syrian naval missile boats securing port

US Special Operations Forces inside Baghdad: DEBKAfile reports 101st Airborne, Delta, Seal commandos raid presidential palaces and government offices

[AFPhys]

It sounds more and more like Syria will jump to the head of the line.

[HarryCaul]

Possible they ran. And Syria would be the one place they could go easily, though probably not trust long term. Of course, a port city would facilitate further escape.

There's no chance US intelligence doesn't know if he's there, though, and I'd wonder why the administration doesn't mention it in public.

Didn't some Iraqi official show up in Syria in the early days?

[oceanperch]

Yikes!

He can run but he cannot hide.

Sounds like a spec. ops. job if this is so.