I think that he just hid them well. As a kid, if someone hid one of your toys in the sandbox, you might never find it. Saddam had a pretty damn big sandbox to hide his toys in.
In any case, that's a good article. A Marine recruiter at my school told us about the same thing that the sniper said: the media just shows the negative. Marines even do things like airdrop soccer balls to the Iraqi kids but they don't get credit for it from Americans.
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