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Sparrowhawk
04-02-03, 10:16 PM
I found this on the internet today, thought some of you might be intersted in seeing them.

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OF THE <A HREF="http://www.newseum.org/frontpages/wariniraq.htm">200 FRONT PAGE OF NEWSPAPERS</A> FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

WHEN THE WAR STARTED ON March 19, 2003, THESE TWO ARE MY FAVORITE



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Washington Post WASHINGTON –

Shortly before 4 p. m. Wednesday, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet offered Presi-dent Bush the prospect – improbable to the point of fantasy, yet suddenly at hand – that the war against Iraq might be transformed with its opening shots. The CIA, Tenet said, believed it had a fix on President Saddam Hussein.

Saddam and others in "the most senior levels of the Iraqi leadership," ordinarily among the most elusive of men, had fall-en under U. S. surveillance.

The intelligence was unforeseen and perishable, presenting what one administration offi-cial called "a target of opportunity" that might not come again.

Not only did the agency know where Saddam was, Tenet said, but it also believed with "a high probability" that it knew where he would be for hours to come – with advisers in a private residence in southern Baghdad. Bush listened calmly – as his aides portrayed the scene – as Tenet described the sources and limits of his information, the likelihood that it was...


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