"Saddam, 65, is a master of deception who has managed to elude the world and internal coup plots through his 24-year reign. "Saddam knows what America would like to do to him, so he rules from the shadows," said Wafiq al-Sammarai, a former chief of Iraq's military intelligence who defected in 1994. "He is one of the most paranoid, but also one of the best-defended, leaders in the world. He will make it hard, maybe even impossible, for America to get him." "

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