muhammad ibrahim s banging on the walls an of his cell. and i jumped out of the truck, and i just told lee, i said go hold that plane, he s going to give up saddam hussein, and lee s like, i got it. and i ran back. got muhammed ibrahim out, and he declared that he would take us to saddam hussein right then. i got out the map, and he drew an exact location on the map, drew the sketch, said farmhouse in the village of adwar, which is the outskirts of tikrit. he said we got to go, we got to go right now. so i went outside and told the other interrogators, this is the map to saddam hussein. and they re like, dude, go get on the plane. the difference
and it was the commander of special operations unit. he goes, well, the guy we re looking for, we picked up in baghdad. i go, really? he says, yeah. i said, you know what we re doing tonight? we re going after saddam. i knew we had to move that night, because i think once that guy was captured, the word would eventually get back. you know, the reality is we didn t know what to expect. i mean, this was a difficult place, adwar. it was the hometown of saddam hussein. yes, there were going to be risks, so i expected a fight, a serious fight. based upon lessons from other missions very similar to this. i said, listen, when does the moon come up? 2100 hours. okay. sunset is about 6:30. i want it to be absolute blackout conditions, no illumination whatsoever when we