Monday, June 23, 2003

HAIL DOROTHY!

If we can prove Saddam is dead the reaction might not be unlike that of the soldiers in The Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch melted.
Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed a guarded hope today that United States missiles might have hit a convoy thought to have been carrying Saddam Hussein.

Asked about a reported missile attack Wednesday on a convoy in western Iraq, Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the committee, said that he would "not be surprised" to learn that Mr. Hussein had been killed.

It was an intriguing comment from a man who regularly receives top-secret briefings, though Mr. Roberts, Republican of Kansas, quickly added that he had received no confirmation regarding Mr. Hussein...

And King Abdullah of Jordan told a television interviewer that he understood Mr. Hussein had been traveling in the part of Iraq where the attack was reported to have occurred...

The Observer of London reported today that American specialists were performing DNA tests on remains found in debris left by a missile attack Wednesday near the Syrian border, to see whether they could be those of Mr. Hussein or one of his sons.

Of course all this begs the question of how just forthcoming with information is King Abdullah of Jordan...

Read it all here.

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