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:spock: Sometimes you just do not know who to believe, didn't they say the Information Minister was dead? Okay, let us say that the below is true, that leaves very little to find Saddam now.

From CNN:
U.S.commander: Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday confirmed dead in raid on Mosul house.

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Are they really dead?  Or will the military come back later and say, 'oops, our mistake, it wasn't really them after all?'  I mean, I know that Saddam had many body doubles, to keep him safe when he went out in public.  But if Saddam was wanting to protect his sons, wouldn't he have body doubles for his sons too?  It appears that they are going on the first look at the bodies and stating that they are Saddam's sons.  But hopefully after the medical examiners look further, it will turn out to be Saddam's sons.

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But if Saddam was wanting to protect his sons, wouldn't he have body doubles for his sons too?

Well now we will not know unless they get Saddam himself which I doubt they will. They are still looking for Osama Bin Laden.

:spock: ...and they only now figure that out? I thought every attempt would have been made to get them alive, but instead they use a missle?

KILLING 2 SONS SPURS DEBATE
By killing Odai and Qusai Hussein instead of capturing them, U.S. forces lost a
chance to expose the inner workings of Saddam's regime, provide clues to the
dictator's whereabouts and yield intelligence on anti-American guerrilla
operations, critics say.
https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...42053%2C00.html

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I don't think that they will ever find Osama Bin Laden.  If they ever find Saddam, it would be purely by chance.  I also think that they should have tried to capture Saddam's sons alive.  Even if they were to never speak about their father or anything else, at least it would have made the U.S. look less like the bully they have become.  But to use a missile to try and capture them?  That was just pure stupidity.  Or maybe they had no intentions of capturing them alive to begin with.  For whatever the reason, it still seems to me that the U.S. thinks that they are justified to shoot first and if anyone survives ask questions second.

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Well, it happens again! Rumsfeld has mishandled the situation by authorising the release of the photos of the dead and 'touched-up' corpses of the Hussein brothers!

First, it is desecration under Islamic practices to mutilate, touch up, and then parade the Muslim dead before the whole world. Islam requires the dead to be buried as soon as possible. This showing of the corpses will only fire up further the anti-US Muslims in that region, and maybe elsewhere in the world. Totally insensitive to the sentiments of the Muslims.

And notice how they cut up the leg of one of them and left the disconnected leg as it is on the morgue table? This is rather inhumane. The very least they could have done is put it back in position, and dressed them up!

Contrary to what they hope to achieve, I think the US may face renewed resentment and dissent in that region, and the photos will be used as icons of anti-Americanism.

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So it seems that Saddam did not leave Iraq afterall?

ANOTHER NEAR-MISS ON SADDAM?
American forces focused their hunt for Saddam Hussein around his Tigris River
hometown and reported a near-miss Sunday in a raid to capture his new chief of
security -- and perhaps the ousted dictator himself. A U.S. soldier was killed
south of Baghdad, the latest death in a spike of guerrilla attacks.
https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...42954%2C00.html

WITNESSES: 2 U.S. SOLDIERS DIE IN GRENADE ATTACK
A U.S. official told CNN that the military believes it has deposed Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein "on the run," that he is in the Tikrit area and is
changing his location every two to four hours.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/28/...main/index.html

WOLFOWITZ: U.S. INTELLIGENCE MURKY
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary who is the architect of the White
House policy on Iraq, said Sunday that "murky" intelligence guides much of the administration's anti-terrorism policy.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/27/sprj.irq....witz/index.html

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I got this in an ABC Nightline daily email yesterday.  I thought I would share it with everyone.  It asks many questions that I find myself asking.

TONIGHT'S FOCUS: There have been lots of headlines all with one theme: The noose around Saddam is tightening. But is it really? And what will we do with him if he's captured?

Does anyone really think that Saddam will ever be taken alive? There is a report out in a Middle Eastern newspaper that says Saddam is wearing belts filled with explosives, so that he can commit suicide, and presumably take lots of others with him, if it looks like he is about to be captured. We don't know if that story is true, but I find it hard to believe that Saddam would want to face the prospect of captivity, and probably some sort of trial at the hands of the U.S.

And does the U.S. really want him in custody? What would we do with him? Bring him here? Some sort of trial? I think that it is far more likely that he will be killed, that is if he is ever found. And what then? If Saddam is somehow eliminated, will that mean the end of the resistance to American occupation? Will the attacks end? And will people, especially the Iraqis, believe it?

If he just disappears, or a body is never found, does he become some sort of legendary figure? On any given day there seem to be sightings all over Iraq. So how do we know that the noose really is getting tighter? This is an easy email for me to write, all I have to do is keep raising questions. But as the U.S. military is putting a great effort into the hunt, as more and more raids take place, these are questions that need to be considered, if not answered.

So tonight we'll have a report on the hunt from ABC News correspondent John Berman in Iraq. Chris Bury is anchoring tonight, and we're still working on who his guests will be. When and if Saddam is found, it will be a huge news story, lots of special reports and all. But in the meantime, I guess we need to think about what comes after that.

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Why is it so difficult for the United States to go the UN way? The United Nations has worked for half a century in conflict situations and it still is the platform the rest of the world believes in. Does the US really believe their cowboy approach is better at winning peace around the world?

" Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that the administration was discussing troop deployments by both Pakistan and Turkey.


''The Bush administration is doing the right thing in looking for additional help in Iraq, '' says Natalie J. Goldring, executive director of the Programme on Global Security and Disarmament at the University of Maryland.

''But the U.S. government should be seeking that help through the United Nations. Instead, U.S. political and military leaders are once again trying to buy countries' cooperation with weapons transfers and military aid,'' she told IPS. "

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