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To: zonder who wrote (52107)	10/15/2002 5:39:08 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Obviously you paid no attention to the article I linked. Here's a sample: "...The sources said Saddam was in the palace when the botched air strike occured and left it immediately to an unknown place, before he personally supervised interrogation of the airman. Two hours after the incident, regime troops arrived at the lake region aboard helicopter gunships, immediately opened fire at fishermen before arresting scores of them. (more) Simultaneously, Al-Bakr air base, where the plane had taken off, was shut down and several air force officers were arrested for interrogations. Two officers, who were with the airman who made the futile bid to kill Saddam the night before the attack, were kept behind iron bars. The sources said the authorities suspended the military exercise and the pilot was burned to death in front of his fellow personnel of the air force. Al-Qabas added that this was one of the major bids on Saddam's life since 1973. Meanwhile, the same newspaper quoted unidentified travellers, who were recently in Baghdad, as saying that a state of high confusion was prevailing in the ranks of the regime's personnel as a result of deep concern over a prospected internal uprising to oust the regime. Up to 30,000 special personnel have been deployed in areas where the regime fears a prospected rebellion, it said, adding that five brigades of the presidential and republican guards have been stationed in Baghdad, as part of special measures to forestall possible popular action."