I hope that Saddam is dead or injured. The problem is that if he's dead, the remaining leadership would have disposed of the body in a way that it may never be found.

Tony Blair's War Cabinet was told by intelligence chiefs yesterday that Saddam Hussein survived last week's cruise missile attack on his bunker in Baghdad, but sustained serious injury.

The Telegraph has learned that ministers were told at a special 40-minute briefing that the Iraqi leader had been so badly wounded he needed a blood transfusion.

If we fail to find his body, we may be answering all the stupid "why haven't we gotten Osama yet?" questions about Saddam.