00:00For nine months, Delta Force couldn't find Saddam by hunting his generals, so they switched
00:04targets and started hunting his cook.
00:06Saddam Hussein was the most wanted man on earth, and he thought he was untouchable.
00:11He relied on a 1959 hideout, a literal spider hole, believing that if he avoided modern
00:16tech, he'd remain a ghost.
00:18But Delta Force stopped looking at the big shots.
00:21They realized Saddam's real weakness wasn't his military.
00:24It was his dinner.
00:25By tracking his loyal inner circle, including his personal cook, they mapped his entire social
00:30network.
00:31They didn't need satellites.
00:32They needed the people who brought him food and messages.
00:35Intelligence teams finally cornered a courier who cracked under pressure, leading them straight
00:40to a remote farm in Adar.
00:42When the soldiers pulled back the camouflage lid of his hole, the dictator was hiding inside,
00:47armed but defeated.
00:48He looked up and offered to negotiate.
00:50The operator simply replied, President Bush sends his regards.
00:54He thought he was hiding from the future, but he was captured by the past.
00:58Was this brilliant intelligence work or was Saddam just living in the wrong century?
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