[lbo-talk] CBS: First there wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it.

R rhisiart at charter.net
Thu May 29 00:18:24 PDT 2003


where this story not true (everyone trusts CBS, right?) it could mean saddam died before the war started. how would that play in the USA? ... especially when no WMD are turning up.

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From: Michael Pollak

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Subject: [lbo-talk] CBS: First there wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it.

No Bunker where U.S. Bombs Targeted Saddam-CBS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it

bombed on the opening night of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in a bid to

kill Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) never existed, CBS Evening News

reported Wednesday.

The network quoted a U.S. Army colonel in charge of inspecting key sites

in Baghdad as saying no trace of a bunker or of bodies had been found at

the site on the southern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, known as Dora

Farms.

"When we came out here, the primary thing they were looking for was an

underground facility, or bodies, forensics, and basically, what they saw

was giant holes created. No underground facilities, no bodies," Col. Tim

Madere said.

CBS, saying it was the first news organization to visit the site, reported

that the CIA (news - web sites) had searched it once and Col. Madere had

searched it twice as part of efforts to find traces of DNA that could

indicate if Saddam or his sons had been killed or wounded.

The network said the main palace in the compound remained standing despite

the surrounding destruction. It quoted Madere as saying anyone who had

been in the building could have survived the raid.

Shortly after the attack, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told

reporters: "There's no question but that the strike on that leadership

headquarters was successful. We have photographs of what took place. The

question is, what was in there?"

The United States effectively acknowledged that the March 20 raid failed

to kill Saddam when it launched a second air attack aimed at the Iraqi

president on April 7.

The fate of Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay is still unclear.

Rumsfeld said earlier this month, "If you don't have evidence he's dead,

you've probably got to assume he's alive."

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