The entrance to the hide-out was under the floor of a small, walled compound with a room in one corner and a lean-to attached to the room.

A pipe to the concrete surface at ground level provided air. Bricks and dirt camouflaged the entrance.Ī Pentagon diagram showed the hiding place as a 6-foot-deep vertical tunnel, with a shorter tunnel branching out horizontally from one side. The cellar was little more than a specially prepared 'spider hole' with just enough space to lie down. Saturday in a walled farm compound in Adwar, a town 10 miles from Tikrit, said Lt. In the gloom they could see the haggard figure of Saddam Hussein, looking more like a tramp than. Saturday in a walled farm compound in Adwar, a town 10 miles from Tikrit, said Lt. His orders were clear: 'Kill or capture HVTNumber 1. Saddam was one of the most-wanted fugitives in the world, along with Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network who has not been caught despite a manhunt since November 2001, when the Taliban regime was overthrown in Afghanistan. In the latest attack, a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. The stunning capture started Saturday evening, when 600 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division along with Special Forces launched lightning raids on two targets, dubbed Wolverine 1 and Wolverine.

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