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NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- A key Iraqi opposition leader says he has information that Saddam Hussein survived an airstrike in Baghdad and escaped from the capital with at least one of his sons.
CNN: Opposition leader: Saddam is alive
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ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino Wednesday blamed the suicide attack against the military police and army headquarters in Nasiriya, Iraq, on Arab extremists and guerrillas sympathetic to the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
CNN: Italy blames Arab extremists
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Coalition forces have now largely brought under control all of major cities of south and central Iraq, including Basra, Nasiriya, Najaf, Hillah, Karbala and Baghdad, as well as Iraq's main port, Umm Qasr, and its southern oil fields.
CNN: Saddam regime loses grip on Baghdad