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To: unclewest who wrote (3696)	7/24/2003 7:46:51 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793550

FOR Christopher Hitchens, the dramatic deaths of Saddam Hussein 's evil spawn will always be the one that got away. The Vanity Fair reporter was in Mosul, Iraq, being shown around by the 101st Airborne the day before the crack American unit cornered Qusay and Uday Hussein and killed them in a six-hour firefight. "I flew back to Washington, D.C., on Monday night," he tells PAGE SIX. "I had just gotten in and was making some phone calls, when my friend said, 'Turn on the TV.' " Hitchens wasn't surprised by the lethal efficiency of the U.S. Army, and praised its military intelligence. "They were rolling up these networks. They were getting more tips than they knew what to do with," he said. "They were very, very confident." Hitchens said media coverage, which focuses on U.S. casualties and the complaints of soldiers who want to go home, left him unprepared for the reality in Iraq. "Morale is very high" among both troops and Iraqi citizens. "People waving American flags at the troops in the street - you can't fake that."