WI: Saddam Hussein flees to the Sunni Triangle?

GauchoBadger

GauchoBadger

Operation Red Dawn (indeed named after that 80’s movie) was an US military operation undertaken in december 2003 with the objective of capturing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was trying to flee to a region to the centre of Iraq known as the “Sunni Triangle”, a strong base of support for his rule, and Saddam’s birth region proper. As US troops raided the town of Al-Dawr, they by chance managed to find Saddam hiding inside a hole, and promptly arrested him.
But what if the Coalition troops involved in the raid had not found Saddam that night?
Could he escape to the northwest of the country, and head a resistance movement from there, like Bin Laden? How does the continued presence of a fugitive Saddam Hussein affect the future of Iraqi history, and the War on Terror?
 

jmc247

He was already losing the Sunni community to Zarqawi and knew it in the stuff that was reported found. He avoids capture another 6-9 months which I think the TL wants to question he probably is liquidated by AQI.
 

walmart

jmc247 said:
He avoids capture another 6-9 months which I think the TL wants to question he probably is liquidated by AQI.
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Alternative he might just end up as puppet of AQI. He was already going further into Islamism since the early 1990s.
 

jmc247

Noscoper said:
Alternative he might just end up as puppet of AQI. He was already going further into Islamism since the early 1990s.
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Al-Douri ended up being used by them as a useful idiot when he thought he was using them. But, Saddam had to feel like he directly controlled everything and that would bite him in the ass in time even if he tries to play the game al-Douri did for awhile.

AQI could go the house arrest/symbol route with him, but that has only so far of a shelf life.
 
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