Maybe it's misinformation. Maybe it's not. :-)
Just to play it safe, Saddam should divide his forces and defend against all of these possibilities. That's what Hitler did when he defended Pais de Calais, the "main invasion site" that was going to be attacked by Patton's fictitious First US Army Group (FUSAG).
That diversionary tactic the Allies pulled at Normandy wasn't going to fool old Adolph. :-)
The World War II spy thriller "Eye of the Needle" is based on the Donald Sutherland character, a German spy, discovering that FUSAG did not really exist and his need to get that information back to Germany.
The fictitious divisions of the non-existant First US Army Group even had their own patches.
Shown below, in order, are the patches of the fictitious 6th, 18th, 21st and 135th Airborne Divisions and the 22nd, 46th, 48th, 59th, 108th, 119th and 130th Infantry Divisions.
