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U.S. Army: Saddam's Hole May Be Destroyed

TIKRIT, Iraq - The U.S. military said Friday it may fill in the spider hole that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) used as his final hiding place to prevent it from becoming a tourist attraction.



Maj. Josslyn Aberle, a spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division, said the military has been considering destroying the hole and hut in the village of Adwar, north of Baghdad, which the former Iraqi dictator used before his Dec. 13 capture by American forces.


"The 4th Infantry Division is discussing that it should be torn down so it doesn't turn into a local tourist attraction," Aberle said.


Aberle said the Army wanted to prevent sightseers and others traveling to the site, which is in an area where U.S. forces are still conducting military operations.


"A key reason to tear it down would be to reduce the amount of extra traffic going to the area, which only complicates our military mission," she said.


Aberle described any final decision to destroy the site as more "political than military," and believed that consultations would more than likely take place between American military commanders in Baghdad and Iraqi leaders from the U.S.-appointed Governing Council.

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Should they remove the hole? What is your opinion on this situation?
And speaking in a conspiracorial manner..if that's even a word, one might take this as a means by which to remove any evidence to the public that it is NOT Saddam that they acquired, or that they were allowing Saddam a great deal of leisure within the hole while waiting to "capture" him.

They should fill it in. I would also tear down the shack next to it too.

I'd like to visit it actually

Lol!

I am starting to agree.

Saddam was sending out young people with bombs strapped on their bodies to die for him. Yet Saddam meekly surrendered when caught like a rat.

Yea, I am thinking more people really should see that hole in the ground.

I'd say leave it. If we're lucky maybe we can pull Osama out of there at some point.

Leave it! It's a part of the country's history. You wouldn't fill in Messines Ridge. You wouldn't tear down the Alamo. Vandals.

Come to think of it I wonder why anyone would want to even bother filling it in in the first place. Unless they were trying to hide something.