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Podcast guest recalls receiving intel that Saddam Hussein might be nearby during an Iraq deployment
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The Call That Saddam Hussein Was Hiding Nearby
What was said
"And the fact and I don't I think I tell it I mean we do the search of course it's a dry hole and just but the fact that he was found not far from So, this is really near Al-Huwayjah, which is a really bad place actually. He's found not too far from there outside of Tikrit in a farmhouse in a hole. Like, did we miss him?"
An unidentified guest on the Jocko Podcast recounts getting a call that intelligence suggested Saddam Hussein was in their area, prompting a rapid move to search a suspected safe house west of the city centre. The guest says the search came up empty, but notes Saddam was later found in a farmhouse hiding place outside Tikrit, leaving the guest wondering whether they had narrowly missed him.
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- The Call That Saddam Hussein Was Hiding Nearby
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