If he is still alive, he must be one nervous SOB...
I expect it is now an execution offense to sneak up behind him and pop an inflated paper bag.
Aviation Week for this week (April 7, 2003) has a great article on what was involved in the first surprise attack on Saddam. Some spectacular logistics were needed.
Another article (subscribers only*) describes an F-15E mission that took out a SCUD launcher in West Iraq (!).
*If you don't subscribe to this magazine, you are missing a LOT. I think you have to be in the aerospace business to get a good rate, though.