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...which he was paid,” McClellan underwhelmingly said in a statement. “That’s what they show.” Given this half-hearted declaration, Dartboard is not quite naïve enough to ignore Bush’s old commanding officer, Lt. Col. William Turnipseed, who doesn’t remember him really turning...
...move for the same reason. But U.S. military officials in Tikrit believe his accommodations on the lam more closely resembled the hovel on the property on which he was caught last Saturday night than the massive, ornate structures he had built around the country as monuments to himself. Lt. Col. Steven Russell commands the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry of the Fourth Infantry Division. In numerous raids his unit conducted, in conjunction with Special Operations Forces, that targeted Saddam Hussein, he says they found mostly, "Mud huts, dilapidated houses, and filth." According to Col. Todd Megill, the 4th I.D.'s senior...
...Baghdad. His name has thus far been withheld, but military officials have said that he was a member of one of these families. He was brought to Tikrit for questioning the morning after his arrest, and before 11 a.m., had provided enough actionable intelligence that Lt. Col. James B. Hickey, the commander of the 4th I.D.'s First Brigade, put his subordinate commanders on alert and began planning that night's raid. "We thought that night that there was a good chance that we would be successful," he said...
...looked odd-a spot on top of which a soldier had stood during the first pass. Underneath the dirt was a cloth rug. Underneath that was a rubber mat, which sat atop a thick Styrofoam block. "We expected something more elaborate. We expected something more well constructed," said Lt. Col. Hickey. They also expected resistance, he says, but when the block was removed, "two hands appeared. That individual clearly wanted to surrender." The bearded, bewildered looking man did not reach for the pistol in his lap. He had no chance to get to the two AK-47s that were inside...
...engaged in warfare—it raises the energy level a bit,” said Col. Russell Howard, head of the Social Sciences Department at United States Military Academy and a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government...