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Witness sez Sammy & Sons, Inc. left before bombs landed on Mansour
Four witnesses to the April 7 US bombing in Baghdad's Mansour district, as well as a former bodyguard of the family of Saddam Hussein, have told the Los Angeles Times that Qusai Hussein survived the blast, and that his father and older brother most likely did as well. About an hour after the bombing, which targeted Saddam Hussein and his sons, Ali Kashif Ghata, a dentist and resident of Mansour, told the Times he saw a white Peugeot race down the block with Qusai in the front passenger seat with his tail a machine gun between his legs. US officials told the Times that they still have conflicting reports about whether the three Husseins survived the bombing. The Saddam family bodyguard, who declined to be identified, told the Times that Saddam and his sons were at a meeting in Mansour that day, as US intelligence suggested, but the bodyguard was told by colleagues at the scene that all three men left the gathering just before the US military dropped four 2,000-pound bombs on the street, and that Saddam and his older son, Uday, parted company then with Qusai.
That would indicate that all three are alive. I was sure Uday was dead, though...

Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-05-22
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