After an eight-hour drivedeepinto the bush, now surrounded by deadly snakes, lions, hyenas, elephants, crocodiles, hippos, scorpions, buffalo and cheetah, I had to concur.
If reporters believed that they had witnessed an American drivedeepinto the heart of the capital, Mr. Sahhaf, in the green uniform and black beret of the ruling Baath Party, wished to disabuse them.