Saddam safe in impregnable underground labyrinth

SADDAM HUSSEIN will prove an almost impossible target for US and British forces planning to assassinate the dictator.

When British Labour Party backbencher George Galloway met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad last year, he disclosed the West's current bête noire was living almost completely underground, in a labyrinthine system of bunkers.

"We were so deeply underground, my ears were popping," the MP wrote last August. "But he seems to have taken to the underground life without acquiring a pallid hue."