(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) -- After eight months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein made his last stand hiding in a hole in the ground. And Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U-S forces in Iraq, says he wasn't found right away. After initially finding nothing during their raid, troops from the Fourth Infantry along with special operations personnel cordoned off the area and began looking more closely.
At a small walled compound several miles south of Saddam's home town of Tikrit, soldiers found what Sanchez called a "spider hole" camouflaged with bricks and dirt. The six-foot-by-eight-foot hole was large enough to lie down in. At the bottom was Saddam, out of fight and out of time. Sanchez says Saddam went quietly in the end, a "tired man" presenting a "cooperative posture". No shots were fired and no U-S troops were injured.
