Like Saddam's regime: a wreck barely afloat 1 First With The News Edition

ONCE she was one of Saddam Hussein's most lavish playthings but now his 50m luxury yacht the Al Mansour is a smoking hulk so badly damaged even looters had ignored her. The coalition had claimed to have sunk the yacht but yesterday she was still floating, having partly slipped her moorings and...

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Published inThe Courier-mail
Main Author Rory Callinan IN BASRA
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brisbane, Qld Nationwide News Pty Ltd 10.04.2003
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Hussein, Saddam
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Summary:ONCE she was one of Saddam Hussein's most lavish playthings but now his 50m luxury yacht the Al Mansour is a smoking hulk so badly damaged even looters had ignored her. The coalition had claimed to have sunk the yacht but yesterday she was still floating, having partly slipped her moorings and crashed into a freighter in the Shattal-Arab waterway in [Basra]. SYMBOL of downfall . . . the Al Mansour, once one of Saddam's prized playthings, lies mangled, LUXURY no more . . . even looters avoid the wreck.; Photo: Photo
ISSN:1322-5235