Как поймали Саддама http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2749-2003Dec15.htmlConfidant Quickly Became Informant, Pointing the Way
By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 16, 2003; Page A01
TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 15 -- After raiding two farmhouses, the soldiers had found no sign of Saddam Hussein. Under a moonless sky on Saturday night, they began combing the palm groves and orange orchards, then moved on to the open, furrowed fields.
Once again, it was beginning to look as if Iraq's most wanted man had eluded them.
An informant, a confidant of Hussein whom they had brought along on the operation, had led them to that farm on the Tigris River. Now he pointed them to the very spot where Hussein was hiding in an underground chamber, according to soldiers involved in his capture. Moments later, Iraq's fugitive former president was in U.S. custody.
The informant was a senior officer in Hussein's elite Special Security Organization, according to the U.S. commander who led the operation. When U.S. Special Forces troops seized him Friday during a raid in Baghdad, they had not immediately realized that they held someone with precious information about Hussein's whereabouts.
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