Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad 07-Apr-2003 U.S. troops think Saddam is alive and hiding in the network of tunnels that stretch 50 miles around Baghdad. But Haitham Rashid Wihaib, his former chief of protocol, says Saddam left Baghdad for his hometown of Tikrit around April 2nd, leaving Iraqi military forces without any central command. "I spent nearly 20 years working for Saddam, latterly seeing him daily while running his private office and daily appointment diary," says Wihaib. "I also got to know his doubles. And the Saddam Hussain we saw shaking hands of his subjects in that extraordinary walkabout...
