A special operations veteran shared new details about his elite team’s capture of Saddam Hussein in an interview nearly two decades after the secret mission.
Retired Army Master General Sergeant Kevin Holland said his Delta Force team told the former Iraqi president and dictator that “President Bush sends his regards” when they pulled him out of a hole where he’d been hiding underground in 2003.
Holland described the mission on a Dec. 7 episode of a podcast hosted by a Navy SEAL veteran called “Danger Close.”
He said his elite team received “human intel” that led them to a hole in the ground in a small agricultural town in Iraq.
The hole was covered with a layer of leaves and sand, and plugged with Styrofoam to obscure its location. It had a small pipe sticking up to allow air to flow, Holland said.
He and his squadron uncovered and unplugged the hole and saw it was lined with bricks like someone was hiding in it. They threw a grenade into it and then heard a voice speaking Arabic that gradually grew louder.
“Then hands come out of the hole and a big bushy head of hair and then we grab him and jerk him out — and it [was] like, ‘Well, that’s him,’” Holland said.
Should have Shot Hussein in the Hole !!!!!
WTF is a Master General Sergeant??