It took 200,000-plus U.S. troops nine months to capture Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after one of the largest manhunts ever.

Now Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mar gah-DAH'-fee) is on the run, but chasing after him is a much smaller and less well-equipped force of Libyan rebels.

They're guided by an estimated hundred or so foreign intelligence and special operations advisers.

Also helping out are NATO reconnaissance drones and bombers.

But that assistance probably will ease off once the fighting in Libya ends.

If the rebels don't get Gadhafi quickly, they could face a protracted hunt that could add to Gadhafi's mythic status and bolster a Gadhafi-led counterinsurgency.

In the time it took to capture Saddam in December 2003, he inspired a Sunni insurgency that threatens Iraqi security even today.