The BBC brings news that Saddam has been captured in Iraq.
John Robb asks a relatively obvious question that I’ve not seen elsewhere - was he hiding, or had he been stashed there by a third party in the hope of his being useful later in the game?
To me, it seems like it’s going to be an interesting question to answer, especially given how bad Saddam looks in the photos the Americans have released.
I wonder, however, how this capture will be seen by the iraqi-on-the-street - while I have no doubt that eventually their quality of life has to improve - they still have comparitively good natural resources which are in strong demand in the west - I also think that until the US stops treating them in the same way us Brits treated India and Africa in the 19th century, there will always be resistance and fighting. Because no nation likes being turned into a vassal state by a country with fundamentally alien cultural mores.