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Abbas’ Last Wish: Running Shorts, Track Suit, Two Boxes of Marlboro Cigarettes
From Jihad Unspun
... Two years ago, [the head of the PLF’s "political bureau", Mohamed] Sobhi said, Aboul Abbas had suffered an attack of angina and spent 12 days undergoing treatment at the Abu Nafis Hospital in Baghdad with [Abbas’ wife] Reem at his side. He had suffered no other health problems and in a last request to his family via the Red Cross, he had asked them to send him two boxes of Marlboro cigarettes, running shorts, a track suit and a dishtash robe. The Independent has seen his request and its acknowledgment by US detention authorities; it does not read like the list of a sick man.
He had an attack of angina and was hospitalized for 12 days in a Baghdad hospital. Likely he didn't look like a sick man before he had his angina attack. Nobody cares, guys. Nobody cares.

Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-03-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=28027