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Nicole Martin shows a confidential handwritten memo found in the rubble of the looted Iraqi foreign ministry to the man who used to arrange the dictator's scheduleSaddam Hussein's former head of protocol said yesterday that the document found by The Daily Telegraph saying that George Galloway received substantial payments from the Iraqi regime was "100 per cent genuine". Haitham Rashid Wihaib, who fled to Britain with his family eight years ago after death threats, said he had no doubt that the handwritten confidential memorandum addressed to the dictator's office apparently detailing how the Labour MP benefited from Iraq's oil sales...

Former jail escapee convicted of murder set to die 05/06/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Convicted killer Roger Dale Vaughn blamed his own stupidity for winding up on death row. Prosecutors looked at Vaughn's criminal past, his escape from the Lubbock County Jail and the carnage he left behind at the home of a 66-year-old strangled woman in Vernon and convinced a jury that's where he belonged. "He's just a mean fellow," says Dan Mike Bird, the Wilbarger County district attorney who prosecuted Vaughn for the rape-slaying of Dora Wilkins more than 11 years ago. AP Roger Dale Vaughn The...