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To: LindyBill who wrote (39764)	8/25/2002 7:34:39 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

There is a more extensive article on page 19. (I have the dead tree version) Focus He who live by terrorism telegraph.co.uk quote Abu Nidal received a VIP welcome, and was treated at the Ibn Sina Hospital in central Baghdad, which is located just 100 yrds from Saddams office at the presidential palace. The article also points out the versions of Nidal deaths before the final version. Nidal had also been reported dead many times over the years of course. - Intial reports from Baghdad said he died of cancer. - Then it was said he commited suicide because the cancer had become too painful. - Then his supporters in Beirut said he had been murdered by the Iraqis. He is also reported of not moving anywhere without a close bodyguard. i.e. he had an entourage. The article goes on to suggest.. The only problem with Habous's eleaborate account of Abu Nidals death is that is almost entirely fictitious, a clumsy attempt by Saddam's rapidly collapsing regime to distance itself from the murder of a man who was once one of Saddams most trusted and most feared confidents