Hunting Down Saddam (42 page)

VMI:
Virginia Military Institute

Wadi:
a dry riverbed, Arabic

WIA:
Wounded in Action

WMD:
Weapons of Mass Destruction

Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2:
the two sites given as Saddam's possible hiding places

XO:
Executive Officer

Z:
Zulu time (Greenwich Mean Time)

ZSU:
a Soviet-bloc anti-aircraft gun, also called “Zeus” (slang term)

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The Green Berets

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HUNTING DOWN SADDAM

“A fast and furious read … When the historians try to put together the real facts of the two wars the U.S. has fought since September 11, 2001, this book will be a valuable contribution to their research.”

—Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN

“Robin Moore knows how to give the bad guys what for. He did it with
The Green Berets
in 1965 and in
The French Connection
in 1970, and now he's back again with a cast of inevitable square-jawed, flinty-eyed Special Forces troops overcoming double-dealing warlords and feckless bureaucrats to annihilate evil doers in the godforsaken mountains and valleys of Afghanistan … Fast-paced and immensely entertaining.”

—
The Washington Post Book World

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—
The Boston Phoenix

“A gripping chronicle.”

—Minneapolis
Star Tribune

HUNTING DOWN SADDAM

Copyright © 2004 by Robin Moore.

Foreword copyright © 2004 by Mark Vargas.

Excerpts from Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell's “Commander's Update” letters from Tikrit, Iraq,
here
, used by permission of Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell.

Dana Lewis's reports and war diaries in “The Screaming Eagles” chapter used by permission of Dana Lewis.

Poem, “
The Widow's Tears
,” and “
An American Soldier Died Today
,” used by permission of Katie Morris.

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