One would of course love to know (yet be very angry if anyone told us) where

the intelligence came from for those “leadership strikes” last night. One

thing that occurs to me, looking at those “Baghdad–ghost town” pictures, is

that there is very, very little traffic on Iraqi roads right now. That is

going to make it hard for the top people to move around much. Remembering

Colin Powell’s UN presentation last month, pretty much any large truck must

be taken as a target of opportunity, likewise of course any plane or

helicopter. If SH & his top people want to move around, they pretty much

have to hide in ambulances and suchlike–and then, without forming an

obvious convoy, where will his bodyguards, food-tasters and minders travel?

Any large number of vehicles converging on a meeting point is an obvious

hazard. The Iraqi leadership is pretty much immobilized.