This was Saddam’s hometown, 97 percent Sunni. Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell, commander, First Battalion, Twenty-second Infantry, Fourth Infantry Division: Our orders were to occupy Tikrit. Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell Shutterstock That work fell to the roughly thirty thousand troops of the Army’s Fourth Infantry Division, working alongside a special team of Delta Force operators known as Task Force 121 intelligence suspected he might be found: northwest of the capital, around Tikrit and the area that would later be labeled the Sunni Triangle-reflecting the ancestral roots of Saddam’s Sunni backers. In fact, the search for Saddam, aka “High Value Target #1,” never stopped, particularly in areas where U.S. troops settled in to occupy post-Saddam Iraq. government established its own interim government in Baghdad, called the Coalition Provisional Authority and more than 150,000 U.S. Bush took to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and, under a banner reading mission accomplished, proclaimed major combat operations over the U.S. As months passed and priorities shifted, it seemed that our interest in finding him did, too.
Saddam made his last public appearance on April 9, 2003, in the streets of Baghdad, as U.S. This is the story of the hunt for the Ace of Spades-the ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, known around the world simply as Saddam-told by those who caught him. In the first weeks of the Iraq war, the Pentagon assembled a pack of playing cards denoting Iraq’s most wanted, the fifty-five figures in the Iraqi government and military deemed its most important targets.
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