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To: Sully- who wrote (97999)	5/12/2003 3:04:44 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. slate.msn.com

To: Sully- who wrote (97999)	5/12/2003 3:46:04 PM
From: Lou Weed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<<HMS Ark Royal switches off BBC>> It amazes me that people still use this as a "see, I told you so" about BBC coverage. The British military has always butted heads with them......this is nothing new. They tend to show stuff that is considered "sensitive" in military terms ie. stuff they (the military) don't want you to see. I point to this as a plus.....do you want your media to become a pawn of the establishment?? I remember watching lots of stuff on the BBC from Northern Ireland that the military certainly did not want aired. Similarly with West Bank coverage.....I remember one incident in particular that showed 3 IDF soldiers beating a 15 year old Palestinian within an inch of his life in an isolated area on a hillside. This was all over the European coverage, when I came to the US a couple days later not one person I asked had seen any of it here!! Sometimes the truth hurts and sometimes it's just not shown. The fact that they're pissing off the hard right both here and Israel reaffirms my opinion that they're doing something right. MON