[mhking]

All in one place?

Hmmmm. One well placed tactical nuke....

[L`enn]

Dayum, hes alive again! Dude's gonna out-Rasputin Rasputin.

[Ruth A.]

I have a difficult time believing Saddam will ever make a "bloody, last stand." He is all mouth--unless it involves other people's lives. He is a coward who will try to escape to the very end.

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[Slyfox]

The first couple of hits must've been of Saddam's doubles.

[Born Conservative]

I have a hard time believing this, especially with the lack of resistance he has put up. If he still IS alive, he'll be planning a getaway, not a last stand.

[Frank_2001]

MOAB time has arrived!!!

[Lawgvr1955]

Saddam is not hiding in the desert, I can assure you. The war is going so well he is simply taking a short vacation. He played golf at the Great Satan's Augusta National Golf Course this very week end. Praise Allah, he won the tournament, it is written!!! He brings pride to the Iraqi people, when he shot all hole in ones, beating the sons of dogs at their own game. I tell you this, the other players committed suicide by the thousands.

Baghdad Bob

[MinuteGal]

"Saddam Hussein is holed up in a desert fortress with his generals prepared for a final bloody showdown".

Oooooo, a remake of "Beau Geste", only in reverse.

Will he prop up all the dead generals with their rifles in the ramparts as hordes of allies come riding over the sand dunes?

Stay tuned.

Leni

[lafayette76]

Yeah right, a fortress on the French Riviera....

[friendly]

Map of Al Hawijah http://www.ncss.org/resources/moments/iraq/IraqMap.pdf

Follow the Tigris river north of Bagdad, halfway to Tikrit (also on the Tigris)

[Born to Conserve]

"Saddam has now turned Al Hawijah ? about 60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk ? into his ..."

MOAB target?

[Grut]

Actually, Saddam has moved into Hitler's old house in Rio.

We are gonna be seeing these 'Saddam Found!' stories for the next thirty years.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Jafar Jafar

Or, as he is known to close friends, J'ar J'ar.

[MattAMiller]

Here's the story as I understand it so far:

Saddam, who was killed on March 19th in strike on his bunker, was critically wounded during the March 19th strike on his bunker. Unforuntately for the coalition Saddam was not in the bunker at the time, although the strikes did kill his sons Qusay and Uday, who had been killed earlier in an altercation with his father's bodyguards.

Iraqi officials attempted to cover the death of of Iraqi President with a series of prerecorded tapes. One such tape showed Saddam on the streets of the Mansour district of Baghdad. The tape, which has been shown to have been shot in late Febuary, was proven to be shot in late March.

On April 2 an unscathed Saddam, who had been critically wounded, was killed in a strike launched by the US. Saddam, who was confirmed to have never left the site, escaped with his only surviving son Qusay and his younger son Uday.

While the CIA was identifying the remains of the late Iraqi president Saddam fled to Tikrit. From his home town Saddam followed the ancient smuggling routes between Tikrit and Iran to the east finally slipping into Syria to the West.

Saddam Hussein is currently believed to be held up in a fortress in Tikrit.

[JustPiper]

Al Hawijah now threatens to be the scene of Saddam’s final battle

I was looking for a map for the last week to find this town and did. A week ago Dan Gourea(sp) a retired military man on MSNBC, said Al Hawijah would be the worse battle, not Tikirit. He said because this is where they were hiding all the WMD's. Now, a few days later, about 2-3 days ago this area was of interest to the CIA because there was heavy fighting, and Dan said where there is heavy fighting, they are hiding something.

So I know this is right and it is either Sadam, the WMD's or both. I never believed he went to Syria.

[Lord_Baltar]

Well, what about that MOAB bomb, that might make an interesting mess of Saddam's "Cunning Plan"

If they do drop it, I wish someone would write on it "With Love from PFC Jessica Lynch"

And also write the names of EVERY US Soldier Killed in getting Iraq outta his greasy fingers.

[Boot Hill]

According to The Sun:   "[The village of] Al Hawijah — about 60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk..."

This story is bogus!

Since Kirkuk is 70 miles north-east of Tikrit, there is no point on a map of Iraq that is "60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk", or even close to those coordinates. And according to the Geographic Names Database (maintained by NIMA), there is no town named anything like "Al Hawijah" anywhere in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein has been dead since the first night of the battle when his bunker was targeted by bunker-buster bombs dropped from F-117's.

--Boot Hill

[demosthenes the elder]

all targets concentrated on one locus?
Four words: Drop a red pill.