Despite his imminent defeat (and perhaps his death), Saddam Hussein still has thousands of bodyguards and fighters ready to die for him. He has organized units that will fight to their death in his defense, including military intelligence, internal security forces, bodyguard details and youth militias. Also, volunteers are streaming into Iraq from other Muslim countries to defend Saddam, especially from Iran.
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U.S. troops think Saddam is alive and hiding in the network of tunnels that stretch 50 miles around Baghdad. But Haitham Rashid Wihaib, his former chief of protocol, says Saddam left Baghdad for his hometown of Tikrit around April 2nd, leaving Iraqi military forces without any central command. “I spent nearly 20 years working for Saddam, latterly seeing him daily while running his private office and daily appointment diary,” says Wihaib. “I also got to know his doubles. And the Saddam Hussain we saw shaking hands of his subjects in that extraordinary walkabout on Friday, was definitely a doppelganger.”
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In Anne Strieber’s new diary, she writes, “Despite the fact that we’re proud of our military men with their extraordinary courage and wonderful technology, many of us are still confused about why we’re fighting a war in Iraq. Sure, Saddam is a nasty dictator and no one will be sorry to see him go, but unless a dictator threatened us or our allies, that’s never been enough reason for us to attack before. And despite all the talk about bioterrorism weapons and nukes, we’ve found very few. So why are we there?”
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To switch on your e-mail and not see at least half of it filled with spam (including a lot of pornography) seems like an impossible dream. But the Anti-Spam Research Group is determined to stamp out spam. One of the major problems is defining exactly what spam is. Anti-spammer Paul Judge says, “Spam is a problem of unwanted messages and we believe that you as an individual or organization should be able to decide the messages that you want and the messages that you don’t want.” Steve Atkins of Spamcon.org says, “Fifty per cent of all e-mail is spam. It’s costing an estimated eight to nine billion dollars in lost productivity in America alone. Worldwide, 628 million users find spam annoying and today people are getting 200 pieces of spam a day.”
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