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Saddam's Wife Helped Locate
Him
The Sydney Morning
Herald
12-14-3
- (DPA) -- Well-informed Lebanese sources said today
that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's second wife supplied the US
with "some information" about where her husband was hiding in
Iraq.
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- Samira Shahbandar, who lives with the ousted Iraqi
leader's only surviving son Ali, "is believed to have given the
Americans and their allies some information about the area where Saddam
was hiding in," the sources said.
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- Saddam was captured based on information from a member
of a family "close to him", Major General Raymond Odierno said.
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- Odierno, the commander of the 4th Infantry Division
that captured Saddam, said that over the last 10 days soldiers had
questioned "five to 10 members" of families "close to Saddam".
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- "Finally we got the ultimate information from one of
these individuals," he said.
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- Lebanese security sources failed to confirm whether
Samira was living in Beirut under an assumed name with her son, as was
reported by the Sunday Times in London.
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- The Times report claimed that Samira spoke to her
husband on the phone weekly and received letters from him
regularly.
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- According to the paper, Saddam's wife told them that
her husband gave her $US5 million ($A6.78 million) in cash plus gold and
jewellery before sending her with his son Ali to the Syrian border after
the US-led invasion of Iraq in March.
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- The paper said a representative of the Sunday Times
met Samira in La Cottage, a restaurant in the ancient city of Baalbeck
in eastern Lebanon. However, sources in Baalbeck told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (DPA) there was no La Cottage restaurant in the
city.
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- During a press conference in Baghdad today, the US
forces commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, ignored a question as
to whether the US had received information from Saddam's second wife,
saying only, "We had intelligence information".
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- Copyright � 2003 The Sydney Morning Herald.
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- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336830886.html
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