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Wed Mar 19, 7:17 AM ET
KUWAIT CITY -- Armed with high-tech weapons, night-vision goggles and pictures of their targets, small teams of Delta Force commandos will soon descend on the outskirts of Baghdad to begin the most anticipated mission of the war: capturing or, if possible, killing Saddam Hussein.
"Officially, the U.S. objective in Iraq is not to kill Saddam but to force a change in the country's regime and to secure the banned weapons that Iraq is accused of developing."
But three separate sources confirm that the preferred outcome is to kill the Iraqi leader and his associates. ''The expectation is to kill him within days'' of the start of the war, a senior Pentagon official says. ''It's what Delta has been training 24/7 to do.''
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KUWAIT CITY -- Armed with high-tech weapons, night-vision goggles and pictures of their targets, small teams of Delta Force commandos will soon descend on the outskirts of Baghdad to begin the most anticipated mission of the war: capturing or, if possible, killing Saddam Hussein.
"Officially, the U.S. objective in Iraq is not to kill Saddam but to force a change in the country's regime and to secure the banned weapons that Iraq is accused of developing."
But three separate sources confirm that the preferred outcome is to kill the Iraqi leader and his associates. ''The expectation is to kill him within days'' of the start of the war, a senior Pentagon official says. ''It's what Delta has been training 24/7 to do.''
Full story.