Al-Jazeera: Saddam Hussein Is Dead
Politics | April 14, 2003, MondayIraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been killed during the night of April 7-8 as a result of a bombing raid on the al-Mansur district of Baghdad.
This was announced yesterday evening in an interview with al-Jazeera television by Amr Naffah, a well-known Iraqi journalist who is close to Iraqi government circles.
Naffah said that Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, also died during the US bombing raid, as well as "half of the Iraqi leadership."
US intelligence agencies believe that this announcement may be deliberate disinformation, circulated in order to bring an end to the search for Hussein and other Iraq leaders.
This was announced yesterday evening in an interview with al-Jazeera television by Amr Naffah, a well-known Iraqi journalist who is close to Iraqi government circles.
Naffah said that Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, also died during the US bombing raid, as well as "half of the Iraqi leadership."
US intelligence agencies believe that this announcement may be deliberate disinformation, circulated in order to bring an end to the search for Hussein and other Iraq leaders.
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