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May 5, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85887,00.html

New Tape Shows Saddam Admitting Defeat

(AP/FOX News) In what is purported to be his last known wartime speech - a video never before televised - Saddam Hussein appears exhausted, at times confused, and seemingly resigned to defeat, but he tells Iraqis that God, somehow, will help them expel the American-British occupiers. The videotape, bearing a presidential stamp, was obtained Thursday from a former employee of the Iraqi satellite television channel which was responsible for filming and distributing official presidential video. The employee said it was made on April 9, the day American troops streamed into central Baghdad. If the date is correct, it means the Iraqi president survived an attack two days earlier, when U.S. forces bombed the capital's al-Mansour neighborhood.

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