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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20927)	6/24/2003 1:47:41 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

US Convoy Attack 'Inside Syria' From correspondents in Washington 06/23/03: (AFP) A US attack last week on a convoy believed to have been carrying Iraqi leaders injured several Syrians and may have occurred on Syrian territory, a US Defence Department spokesman said today. The attack on suspected "leadership targets" in the convoy, which was heading toward Syria, occurred on Thursday. "There were a few Syrian nationals involved in the incident," said Lieutenant Colonel Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman. "A few may have been injured. We are treating those." Keck said "it is still to be determined which side of the border" the convoy was on when it was hit but that the United States was working with the Syrian government. US forces were investigating at the scene, but there was no information as to whether any fugitive Iraqis were hit, Keck said. The attack has prompted reports that US officials believed deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein or his sons may have been in the convoy. The White House would not say whether Saddam or his sons were believed to have been in the convoy. "I can confirm for you that there were military operations against leadership target or targets," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters. "This should be seen in keeping with the ongoing military effort in Iraq to bring justice to people who we believe are associated with the regime or are leaders in the regime," added the spokesman. A US defence official with knowledge of the intelligence that led to the strike, said reports that Saddam or his sons were hit were "wishful thinking". The British weekly, The Observer, reported yesterday the convoy was believed to be carrying the deposed Iraqi leader and his eldest son, Uday, and that US experts were carrying out DNA tests on remains recovered from the convoy. It said the convoy was struck by missiles as it entered Syria from Iraq after the United States intercepted a satellite phone conversation in which either Saddam or his sons were overheard. A US defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he knew of no effort to collect DNA samples at the site. He declined to discuss the nature of the intelligence that prompted the attack, but told AFP: "I think there is a lot of wishful thinking." "A lot of what is being reported is not accurate," he said. "We attacked a convoy along a route. We thought it might have been leadership. We didn't know who," the official said. Hopes of capturing the ousted Iraqi leader have risen since the detention one week ago of Saddam's closest aide, Abid Hamid Mahmud in northern Iraq. Mahmud, No.4 on the US list of 55 most wanted Iraqis, has told his US captors Saddam and his sons survived the war, the official confirmed. Mahmud said he fled with them to Syria, but they were expelled following US pressure. "That's what he said," said the official. "We don't know if it's true." Saddam and his sons were the targets of at least two US air strikes during the war, but their fate is unknown. The failure to account for them has given Iraq's former Baathists ruling party a rallying cry to resist the US occupation, US commanders and administration officials believe. Near daily hit-and-run attacks have claimed mounting US casualties, prompting intensive US raids to crush the resistance before it can take root. "I wouldn't underestimate the fear that Saddam still shadows his people with," King Abdullah II of Jordan told ABC television on Sunday. "There are a lot of Iraqis out there that think that he might still be alive, and might come back to haunt them." But Abdullah played down the report that Saddam or his sons were killed in the attack. "It's like Elvis. There's a lot of sightings of him all over the place," he said. "You're getting so many stories, left, right, and centre. But I've heard so many stories in the past several months," he said. © Mirror Australian Telegraph Publications

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20927)	6/24/2003 8:30:43 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20927)	6/24/2003 10:08:12 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Karen this morning on early morning radio show I listened again as the polls insisted what JlAllan says is true... some sixty six Plus Americans don't care that the WMD weren't found . They think the war was justified anyway. Moreover that we should invade IRAN if they don't stop the nuclear arming... Can you believe this. It reminds me of my favorite old timer up here in NC who is as full of integrity as any person I have ever met. He is hard working and built my home for me. I visited him on Saturday morning with some tokens of thanks and all over his walls, pictures of Dubba. Now, here is a case of a wonderful human being who doesn't go on the Internet,rarely reads but believes in our President. He is also a former Master Sergeant from the WW II He wears his uniform... to all social functions..It is quite beautiful... An American Flag stands outside his house. This is an example of the AVERAGE AMERICAN who buys all of the FOX news and the G. Gordon Liddy's and RUSSSSSHHHHHHHH on the radio. I think if the facts were presented... if preachers spoke out enlightening the population in these rural areas that things might be different. What to do ? Suma. Do we believe in Polls ? I think they might be accurate.