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As US Forces tightened their grip on Baghdad, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, along with his two sons, fled the capital three days ago for his home town of Tikrit, 175 km to the north, media reports said. "I have been informed that once he had firm evidence that the Americans were closing in on Baghdad, he fled to his home town of Tikrit," claimed Haitham Rashid Wihaib, Saddam's former Chief of Protocol in The Mail. The dictator who used to being ferried around in a vast fleet of heavily armoured Mercedes left by way of anonymous taxis and battered pick...

The Bush administration has concluded the U.S.-led "decapitation" attack failed to take out Saddam Hussein, but an Iraqi opposition leader claims a higher authority already got the job done. Moslem al-Asadi, a doctor living in exile in Iran, said he believes the real Saddam died in 1999 from cancer. "The real Saddam died because he had cancer of the lymph nodes, and since his death in 1999 they're just showing his doubles," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. In a plot reminiscent of the Hollywood tale of a body double subbing for an incapacitated American president titled "Dave,"...

High-tech analysis of the video recently released by Iraq has allowed me to conclusively identify the body-double portraying Saddam Hussein:

Whoever said that the university stands as a pillar of civilization has obviously never been to Arizona State. Arizona's public universities, now infamous for their broad progressive curricula composed of subjects to the likes of queer pulp fiction, postmodern pornography and special workshops on "sex workers," have always been a string of lone islands surrounded by a reality that remains alien to the hermitic Marxists lying within their academic workings. There is indeed a dark underside lurking beneath the trite silliness of academic department heads – who for the most part missed out on the latest social and political developments...

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has blamed misleading intelligence for the deaths of 14 people, including nine children, in an operation to assassinate the Palestinian fugitive at the top of Israel's most-wanted list. Only a day after describing the raid that killed the Hamas military chief, Salah Shehadeh, as "one of our major successes", Mr Sharon said he and the Defence Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, would never have approved the air strike against a block of flats in Gaza City had they known innocent people were at risk. Mr Sharon has reportedly called for an investigation into the intelligence brief...