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"The grip I used to describe that Saddam had around the throats of the Iraqi people are loosening. I can't tell you if all ten fingers are off their throats, but finger-by-finger it's coming off."
— President George Bush, at a joint news conference with the British prime minister Tony Blair after a meeting at Hillsborough Castle outside Belfast. Bush said that he didn't know if Saddam Hussein had been killed in yesterday's massive bombing attack.