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Saddam, and some number of body doubles, have played a shell game, moving between many fortified palaces every night. His personal bodyguards are mostly relatives from his hometown, and we have no hope of infiltrating that group, so finding out where he is (and whether a particular person is the real Saddam or a fake) is extremely difficult. We probably know most of the places that he might be, but have no idea which of those is his actual location. I suspect that these doubles actually do many of his "personal" public appearances, and that most of the staff deliberately do not know whether or not it is him.

I'm sure we will hit every location where we suspect he might be, but I seriously doubt that we will get him on the first try.