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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Wildlife officials say a 5-foot-long alligator snatched a Yorkshire terrier near a pond at a Fort Myers country club. Cheryl Young said she was outside her home at the Estero Country Club Friday afternoon while her small dog was running around nearby without a leash. All of the sudden, the alligator jumped out of the water, grabbed the dog and pulled it back to the pond.

THE daughters and grandchildren of Saddam Hussein narrowly escaped being killed by American missiles at a family farm on the first nightof the war, according to his eldest daughter. In her first interview Raghad, 36, said last night that she was no longer in touch with her father or brothers, Uday and Qusay, but believed they had all survived. "The last time I spoke to my father was five days before the war," she said. "He was in good spirits. I know he survived the war. "But once Baghdad fell it was all so quick, all the family went our...