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Rumsfeld says fate of Saddam fuels guerrilla attacks
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 06/10/2003 10:58:08 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that uncertainty over Saddam Hussein's fate is giving the former Iraqi leader's hard-core supporters incentive to mount deadly guerrilla attacks on American troops trying to rebuild Iraq.

"There are people who may fear that he could come back," Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters traveling with the secretary as he visited European war allies.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: decapitation; guerrillaattacks; iraq; postwariraq; rowanscarborough
Wednesday, June 11, 2003

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Morning John, maybe we should discuss how stupid it was to go after the thug with 2000lb bomb's instead of say something in the .30 range. Blackbird.
2 posted on 06/11/2003 1:42:14 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST
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