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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>where this story not
true (everyone trusts CBS, right?) it could mean saddam died
<EM>before</EM> the war started. how would that play in the
USA? ... especially when no WMD are turning up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mpollak@panix.com href="mailto:mpollak@panix.com">Michael Pollak</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:34
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] CBS: First there
wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>No Bunker where U.S. Bombs Targeted
Saddam-CBS<BR><BR>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baghdad bunker which the United
States said it<BR>bombed on the opening night of the Iraq (news - web sites)
war in a bid to<BR>kill Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) never existed, CBS
Evening News<BR>reported Wednesday.<BR><BR>The network quoted a U.S. Army
colonel in charge of inspecting key sites<BR>in Baghdad as saying no trace of
a bunker or of bodies had been found at<BR>the site on the southern outskirts
of the Iraqi capital, known as Dora<BR>Farms.<BR><BR>"When we came out here,
the primary thing they were looking for was an<BR>underground facility, or
bodies, forensics, and basically, what they saw<BR>was giant holes created. No
underground facilities, no bodies," Col. Tim<BR>Madere said.<BR><BR>CBS,
saying it was the first news organization to visit the site, reported<BR>that
the CIA (news - web sites) had searched it once and Col. Madere
had<BR>searched it twice as part of efforts to find traces of DNA that
could<BR>indicate if Saddam or his sons had been killed or wounded.<BR><BR>The
network said the main palace in the compound remained standing despite<BR>the
surrounding destruction. It quoted Madere as saying anyone who had<BR>been in
the building could have survived the raid.<BR><BR>Shortly after the attack,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told<BR>reporters: "There's no question but
that the strike on that leadership<BR>headquarters was successful. We have
photographs of what took place. The<BR>question is, what was in
there?"<BR><BR>The United States effectively acknowledged that the March 20
raid failed<BR>to kill Saddam when it launched a second air attack aimed at
the Iraqi<BR>president on April 7.<BR><BR>The fate of Saddam and his sons Uday
and Qusay is still unclear.<BR><BR>Rumsfeld said earlier this month, "If you
don't have evidence he's dead,<BR>you've probably got to assume he's
alive."<BR>___________________________________<BR><A
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