OUT on the golf course one day, US President George W. Bush compared Saddam Hussein to the hole in the center of the green, while Osama bin Laden was like a ball in the rough. The message was clear: Saddam was well within America's sights.

On paper, everything was oh-so-easy. In reality, however US and allied troops have yet to find Saddam, or his body for that matter. Perhaps the slippery dictator—dubbed the Butcher of Baghdad—now li