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Monday, December 29, 2003

# Posted 3:17 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

SHERLOCK HOLMES IN IRAQ: Phil Carter pays tribute to the junior intelligence analysts in the 4th Infantry Division who tracked down Saddam. The full story is available to WSJ subscribers.

All I can add is that the outstanding soldiers responsible for finding Saddam did exactly what Americans are supposedly unable to do: they used common sense and cold logic to understand the inner workings of a foreign culture and the behavior of clandestine guerrillas.

It wasn't just a handful of exceptional soldiers who accomplished this impressive objective, however. The analysts who tracked down Saddam depended on the intelligence produced by countless other soldiers through interrogations, informant accounts and other methods. Thus, it is the United States armed forces as an institution that has demonstrated its adaptability to foreign cultural settings.
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