That’s what the Saddamites are claiming from the Baghdad raids. If true, an astonishing result after a night of “Biblical” destruction. Then there’s this from Burns:
[W]hat has added mystery to the story since Thursday is that Mr. Hussein, normally inclined to issue long, discursive, grandiose philippics at times of crisis, has simply disappeared. All he has left to Iraq’s 24 million people at a time of crisis is Thursday’s five-minute, disjointed, hand-lettered denunciation of the “criminal little Bush,” and his vow to Iraqis that “these days will add to your glorious history.”
Either he’s fighting for life or he’s dead.
The Dish 