Saddam Hussein, was fearless about the prospect of war with the United States, according to a Thai woman who served as a maid at the Presidential palace in Baghdad. Stealth aircraft and cruise missiles apparently did not concern him, but there was at least one intruder that struck "terror in the heart" of the Iraqi leader. Saddam Hussein is "extremely afraid of" cockroaches." Could the war have been ended by one strategically placed smart bomb carrying a payload of German roaches? In one year a single pair of roaches can produce 400,000 descendants, almost equal to the number of Allied forces in the region. -- US News & World Report, 2/4/91 Back to Cry Havoc #13 Table of Contents Back to Cry Havoc List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1996 by David W. Tschanz. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com