Everyone is reporting this:
U.S. launches massive operation against Saddam loyalists, rounds up nearly 400 suspects.
Using jet fighters, tank-buster aircraft and patrol boats, the U.S. military launched a massive operation to crush opposition north of Baghdad and captured nearly 400 suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists in a bid to end daily attacks against American soldiers.
Code-named ”Operation Peninsula Strike” and involving thousands of American troops, the push began Tuesday and was centered on the Tigris River town of Thuluya 45 miles north of Baghdad, the Central Command said.
While the command did not mention Saddam, a leader of an Iraqi exile group said in New York Tuesday that the ousted leader was seen north of Baghdad as recently as three weeks ago.
Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, also claimed Saddam was paying a bounty for every American soldier killed, using $1.3 billion in cash taken from the Central Bank on March 18. Boston Globe
But FOX News‘ slant on it is just a little different:
Saddam Hussein has been seen north of Baghdad and is paying a bounty for every American soldier killed, the leader of an Iraqi exile group said Tuesday.
Saddam has $1.3 billion in cash taken from the Central Bank on March 18, is bent on revenge and believes he can “sit it out and get the Americans going,” said Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.
