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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Sully- who wrote (97999)5/12/2003 3:04:44 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Seeking Saddam's Clan
By Michael Young - SLATE
Posted Monday, May 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM PT

Stories derived from the weekend's U.S. media dominated the leading Arabic newspapers Monday. An exception was a piece in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat suggesting U.S. forces had spotted former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his youngest son Qusai. According to an anonymous Kurdish source cited by Al-Sharq al-Awsat, in the past three days the Americans have intensified their search in rural areas near Tikrit for Saddam, Qusai, Abed Hammoud (Saddam's onetime personal secretary), and up to 15 other men. The fugitives have purportedly donned traditional Arab garb to escape detection. The source also said that Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," was not killed in Basra, but is "moving through towns and tribal encampments near the Syrian border." An Iraqi National Congress source was quoted in the same story saying that former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf was living at his aunt's house in the Mansour district of Baghdad. This seems to be no secret in the city, since assailants reportedly stoned the house two nights ago.

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