If we announce that we did get the guy the first night, then the UN whinners would demand we stop since we accomplished regime change.
On the other side, it would make it difficult to motivate their troops to keep on fighting if the threat of Saddam's revenge is removed.
Both sides have too much to loose by announcing that the snake's head is severed.
We can only hope it was accomplished.
after the azziz trap , it could be they are putting this out as disinformation to try to get saddam to do something
I don't think Stalin would have been up and about just before dawn. Would Stalin's imitator Saddam?