For the past three weeks the coallition forces have done the deer hunter equivalent of walking through the woods with bells on every limb and a megaphone glued to his mouth, Saddam knew where we were before we did.
If the SAS (maybe 8 of them) can take an embassy, kill all bad guys and be out in 30 seconds (and this was 13 years ago) then a stealth hit must have been possible with more men and fat more advanced technology.
There are words in the dictionary like quiet, stealth, tact, hide, the list is endless.
We just chose to bomb loudly instead, hence the hassle finding him.