From a member of the staff: “Most of us try to have a few bucks in walking-around money.
Saddam had $750,000 in crawling-around money.” From Ryan McGee’s Wading in the Velvet Sea: “I flipped on the TV, and
the first thing I see are images of the cubby hole. … I thought, Wow, all this time they’ve been
searching for him in Iraq, and they appear to have found him in a 1-room studio apartment over in
Roxbury.”