Follow this line of events. Make sure you check out the quote from W after the second "kill" at the restaurant bombing (no US official visited the site).
The time we killed him at the start of the warhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2868115.stm"The preponderance of the evidence is he was there when the building blew up," the newspaper quoted one official as saying.
TV appearance
Analysts have been scrutinising a televised message by the Iraqi president broadcast within hours of the attack, which refers to the date of the bombing and the fact that it was at dawn.
"The CIA's assessment of the tape is that it does appear to be the voice of Saddam, but there is no conclusive evidence about whether that was taped before or after the operation began," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
The time we killed him in the restauranthttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-10-saddam-usat_x.htm"The official take from the Pentagon is that Saddam is 'unfound,' " a senior defense intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "Most along the E-Ring (the Pentagon's outermost hallway and executive suite) think he's under the rubble."
Similarly, a number of senior NSC staffers believe Saddam is dead, based on the absence of any visible Iraqi leadership since then. Senior administration officials spoke Thursday — in the present tense — of "post-Saddam Iraq."
A Defense Department intelligence official said an abrupt end to an electronic intelligence intercept of Iraqi leadership conversations indicated that Saddam and his sons were at the site at the time of the bombing.
"The signal died when the bombs hit," the official said.
President Bush admitted, "I don't know whether he survived. The only thing I know is that he's losing power." http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030409-saddam-kill01.htmAND THEN TaaaaaDAAAAAAAAAAAA!!The words of L. Paul Bremer, "We got him," are illuminated on the control tower at Basra's airport on Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.main/