Posted by Joe Cimoch on Monday, April 07, 2003 at 11:49PM :
In Reply to: Saddam DEAD? posted by Ed Tavernier on Monday, April 07, 2003 at 11:16PM :
I hope the bombs found their targets.
From Fox news:
WASHINGTON — An American bomber struck a residential complex in Baghdad on Monday after U.S. intelligence received information that Saddam Hussein, his sons and other top Iraqi leaders might be meeting there, U.S. officials said.
There was no immediate word on who might have been killed, but U.S. officials said they had evidence the target had been destroyed. "There is a big hole where that target used to be," one U.S. official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The attack was carried out by a single B-1B bomber which dropped four 2,000-pound, bunker-penetrating bombs on the residential building, military officials said.
The strike came at 3 p.m. Baghdad time in the upscale Mansour neighborhood, said Marine Maj. Brad Bartelt, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command in Qatar.
"We are confirming that a leadership target was indeed hit very hard," Bartelt said. He add no information of the results of the attack.