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OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM'Saddam's bombmaker' hit in assassination attemptHamza touted as authoritative source on nuclear program Posted: December 25, 20033:13 p.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com An Iraqi newspaper – Iraq of Tomorrow – along with Iraqi scientists and members of the expatriate community are reporting that U.S. emissary Khidhir Hamza, has been the victim of a bomb attack. Hamza is often referred to in the West as "Saddam's Bombmaker" after the title of his best-selling autobiography of the same name, that portrayed his rise to leader of the Iraqi nuclear bomb program. A roadside bomb was placed in one of Hamza's...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi scientist killed in the U.S. invasion and now linked by arms hunter David Kay to possible nuclear weapons research was working on an advanced gun, not atomic bombs, fellow physicists say. They and eyewitnesses also say Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id was killed not when he tried to "run a roadblock," as asserted by Kay, but when a U.S. tank crew blasted his civilian car without warning on an open street. These accounts of the physicist's research and death, provided by 10 Iraqis and supported on key points by U.N. arms inspectors, challenge a core element of...