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Iraq
Saddam seriously injured, British Cabinet told
2003-03-23
Edited to stay on target
Tony Blair's War Cabinet was told by intelligence chiefs yesterday that Saddam Hussein survived last week's cruise missile attack on his bunker in Baghdad, but sustained serious injury. The Telegraph has learned that ministers were told at a special 40-minute briefing that the Iraqi leader had been so badly wounded he needed a blood transfusion.
"Dr. Bashir! Our glorious leader is severely injured!"
"Quickly man, we need to arrange a blood transfusion!"
[to guard]"Bring me a Kurd!"
His son, Uday, is also thought to have been injured and may even have been killed. Some American officials also claimed yesterday that another of Saddam's relatives, Ali Hassan al-Majid — known as "Chemical Ali" for his involvement in the infamous 1988 Halabja chemical weapons attacks — had been killed.
That's too bad, I wanted to see Ali in a war crimes trial. And I really wanted to see him swing at the gallows.
There was an AFP report yesterday that Ali Hassan wasn't at the meeting, that he's holed up in a hospital at Nasiriya...
A British official said: "Saddam Hussein was badly injured. He was so badly injured he needed a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, he was not critically injured. We think he is still alive. We also think his son Uday was killed or badly injured."
Uday was badly injured in the previous assasination attempt. How many times can he take being badly injured?
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