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To: Richard S who wrote (433989)7/26/2003 1:02:27 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Respond to of 769670
 
Now we know we were very close and that there was good reason for hope that the family was buried in rubble.

"A similar attack on the Mansour neighborhood in Baghdad April 7 also missed Saddam and his sons -- but only by 10 minutes, the bodyguard said.

The set-up for that meeting also turned out to be a test for a certain captain on Saddam's staff, who was the only one told about the meeting.

"We went inside and then out the back door," Abu Tiba said. "Ten minutes later it was bombed. So they killed the captain."