Reply #14: Following Saddam Hussien's children is how we found him [View All]

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That interrogation took place on Dec 1. Over the next 13 days they rounded up 40 family members of Muhammad Ibrahim — anyone who knew him. A lead took them to a house in Baghdad on Dec. 12 — the last day of Maddox's tour in Iraq. They arrested three people — among them Muhammad Ibrahim's lieutenant. The other detainees had bags placed over their heads.

"So I was interrogating the lieutenant and eventually he said, 'I do know Muhammad Ibrahim,' Maddox recalled.

"I said, 'Where was he last night?'

"He said, 'He was at the house (where the raid had taken place).' "

Maddox thought he had escaped.

"I'm like, 'We just missed him.' And my interpreter says, 'No, he was at the house."

They had him.

"So I ran to the cell thinking he's one of these three guys," Maddox said excitedly. "So I lifted up the hoods."

They had Muhammad Ibrahim — the head of the insurgency and Saddam's right-hand man — and they hadn't even known it.

"So I looked at him and I said, 'You are Muhammad Ibrahim. I've been waiting to meet you.'

"And my translator says, 'He's been waiting to meet you too.'"

Maddox had three hours before he was to fly out of Iraq, since his tour was up. He told that to Ibrahim -- and that he had 40 of his relatives in custody and 20 more on a list to nab.

"At the end of those two hours, he did say I'll take you to him (Saddam)," Maddox said.

The task force flew him from Baghdad to the farm in Tikrit. They spent several hours looking for Saddam. Ibrahim didn't want to finger him. Eventually, he walked to the spider hole and kicked a rope.

"The special ops team members noticed it. So they backed him away and pulled it up. And there he was," Maddox said.

Muhammad Ibrahim remains in an Iraqi prison. The Special Forces team found 11.2 million dollars at his house that had been used to fund the insurgency. His family members were set free.

Maddox returned to the U.S.

Saddam Hussein was hanged on Dec. 30, 2006.

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