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Uday and Qusay found with $, Viagra and Womenâs Purses
Subtitled: Living the Hard Life on the Run ;-)See How They Ran By Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland, Newsweek In his famous short story "The Things They Carried," writer Tim OâBrien shows that you can learn a great deal about men by what they take into battle. IN THE CASE OF the platoon he described slogging through the rice fields in âNam, those items included love letters from home, grenades and land mines, lucky charms, insecticide, copies of Stars and Stripes, fingernail clippers, bags of marijuana, bandages, psyop leaflets and tanning lotion. "Often," OâBrien writes, "they carried each other, the wounded and the weak." And what did Uday Hussein carry to the fight? After a hot and noisy siege last week, American soldiers found, in the rubble near his body, his briefcase. The contents, NEWSWEEK has learned, included painkillers, numerous bottles of cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of menâs underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a single condom. Uday and his brother, Qusay, also had with them a huge stash of cash, as well as, for some reason, two ladiesâ purses. As they say: Read it All - much more on the hunt for HVT-1 (Sammy) Posted by: Frank G 2003-07-27 |
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