Friday, July 16, 2010

The Impact of a First Impression...

This is the bathroom door of Qusay Hussein... youngest of Saddam's two sons. Bombs from the US invasion blasted his house in March 2003 after the US gave the Husseins 48 hours to leave the country...


The weakest link in a house of reinforced concrete are the windows and doors... the blast blew the door off its hinges and made an imprint on the wall...


But left the door intact... Yowzah!


The Brothers Hussein "bought the farm" four months later at this Mosul safe house... rumor has it the homeowner collected a crisp $30M on a "dead or alive" bounty and a free ticket to the US...


In exchange for a messed up home and the prospect of never seeing family and friends again...


Here's how it went down from an Apache AH-64 gunship's view...