Mission Black List #1

By Eric Maddox with David Seay
published in 2009

The title of this book is interesting. Mission: Black List #1. This title explains the method of how fugitives were titled. There is a list of the fugitives called the Black List. There were 55 fugitives for the U.S. Military in Iraq. There are 55 cards in a deck of cards, if you add 3 jokers. Put two and two together and you get a deck of cards with the faces a number of an order of fugitives. These people are described as High Value Targets. The first one is obvious, Saddam Hussein, the main fugitive of this book. Saddam was the Ace of Spades. The book even has a photo of Saddam's Ace of Spades card. His two sons were Black List #2 and #3 but they had died in a bloody shoot-out. Black #4 was his presidential secretary, #5 was his notorious chemical user, #6 was a military advisor, and etc. This list was devised as a way of keeping track to those who had the most power in Iraq. Because of the organization to this information, the events that occurred in Iraq were executed swifter and the connections between people that could lead to Saddam could be made.