How long before we got Uday and Qusay or captured Saddam himself were we hearing things like ” security forces missed them/him by mere hours”?
Well, how about this,
Zarqawi escaped capture by one hour
Al Qaida’s leading insurgent in Iraq has narrowly escaped capture by a coalition forces dragnet.
Iraqi Interior Minister Falah Naquib said U.S. and Iraqi forces nearly arrested Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi in late January. Naqib said Al Zarqawi escaped his stronghold about one hour before coalition forces raided the premises.
If I remember correctly, within 45 days after getting reports like this, our guys had killed Uday and Qusay and had found Saddam in his rat hole.
I�m hoping history repeats itself.