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Saddam final words before hiding Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6672024%255E1702,00.html http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6672024%255E1702,00.html Saddam aide 'hiding in desert' From a correspondent in London 29Jun03 A SENIOR aide to Saddam Hussein, number 12 on Americas list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis, has been hiding in a small town in the desert after faking his death and holding a mock funeral, the Sunday Times reported. The London-based paper said it had established that Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi, the chief of staff of the Republican Guard, was hiding hundreds of kilometres from Baghdad. As the war ended, Hassan spread a rumour that he had been killed in an attack on Baghdad airport, the Times said, adding that his comments had been relayed to the paper "through reliable intermediaries". The Times said that through these intermediaries, Hassan had described a dramatic moment when now-toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein warned his sons they must accept defeat and go their separate ways. "It's over. It's over," Saddam is said to have told Uday and Qusay Hussein as they drove through the streets of Baghdad on April 11, two days after the city was captured by US forces. The Times said that according to Hassan, Saddam's younger son, Qusay, sobbed and pleaded to be allowed to go into hiding with his father. But Saddam replied: "Splitting up gives us a better chance of survival". Hassan claimed he has had no contact with any of the three since, but believed that Saddam has stayed on in Iraq. Hassan also reportedly disclosed that Saddam, Qusay and Uday had a narrow escape when they gathered secretly at Hassans house in Mansour, a wealthy residential district of Baghdad on April 7 as the war reached its climax. Ten minutes after the meeting broke up and Saddam left, US forces dropped four powerful bombs which hit a block of neighbouring houses in an attempt to kill the Iraqi leader. Hassans house was undamaged, however. The Times said that Colonel Tim Madere, the US officer in charge of inspecting key sites in Baghdad, had confirmed that no trace of bodies or a bunker had been found. This report appears on news.com.au.

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