How America Actually Found Saddam

December 13, 2003. Ad-Dawr, Iraq. The most wanted man on the planet, Saddam Hussein, is pulled out of a spider hole. But the story of how the US military found him is far more complex than the official narrative. For 9 months, the "Ace of Spades" was a ghost. The Pentagon’s strategy of hunting generals and using a "Deck of Cards" had failed. The breakthrough didn't come from a satellite or a drone. It came from a low-level interrogator, a betrayed trust, and a strange obsession with a specific t