One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafThose who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf