Report: U.S. special forces in Iraq track Saddam Hussein

Published January 20th, 2003 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

The United States is undertaking a vigorous military and intelligence effort to track, and possibly kill, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, an American newspaper reported Monday. 

 

The effort involves, among other things, small teams of U.S. special operations forces and CIA paramilitary units inside and around Iraq, satellite imagery, radio intercepts and airborne reconnaissance, U.S. intelligence officials told The USA Today

 

The activities are part of a strategy designed to pressure Saddam to depart or disarm and, if he won't, pave the way for a U.S.-led invasion to oust him, the report added. (Albawaba.com)

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