Wife Laid Trail to Saddam's Lair

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This is a fascinating article that gives more context to Sy Hersh's article last week about the Israeli work & Task Force 121. Highly recommended reading.

http://www.news.com.au/common/printpage/0,6093,8189551,00.html

SADDAM Hussein was captured in a filthy underground hole because of the demands of the one woman he still trusted.

She is Samira Shahbander, the second of his four wives.
And now she may receive part of, if not all, of the $US25million ($33.8 million) bounty the US Government promised for information that led to the capture of the Iraqi dictator.

Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had been tailing her since she fled to Beirut, Lebanon, before the US invasion.

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Other Israeli agents inside the Syrian side of the border had heard radio chatter between the unit - known as US Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force 121 - as they set about trying to track down Saddam.

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"For political reasons, we had not been formally invited to join the party," said a source close to Meir Dagan.

Mossad - not for the first time - decided to keep to itself the information it was gleaning for the surveillance of Samira.

But on Thursday, December 11, that changed. The yaholomin team picked up a conversation between Samira and the man they were now certain was Saddam.

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