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Tom Brown		Battle Lines is an ongoing Web log (blog) dedicated to providing a broad perspective on the latest news and developments from the war in Iraq. Response and suggestions are welcomed. Tom Brown has been an editor, reporter and software analyst for The Seattle Times for 20 years.

March 28, 2003

Does Saddam have a Syrian rabbit-hole?

Saddam Hussein is a long-term survivor in an incredibly brutal world of his own making. It has been widely speculated that he’ll fight to the death in Baghdad in order to cement – at least in his mind – his stature as a new Saladin, vanquisher of Crusaders and heretics. But what if that’s all bogus? The London Daily Telegraph, without substantiation, claims he and top advisers have already set up an escape route to Syria. Maybe he still wants to survive.

Posted by tbrown at March 28, 2003 07:37 PM

Katherine Long, research editor at the Seattle Times and 18-year editor and reporter, substituted for Tom Brown the week of April 14.

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