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Here is the link to the article at the Iraqi News Agency -

http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/ereport16.htm

I goofed on the publication date when posting. This screed was published in 2001, not 2002.

In only one place, which was a civilian shelter, which is the Ameriyah Shelter, more than four hundred human beings, children, young and old men and women, died in Iraq by American bombs.

I well remember this incident. The Iraqis opened up a morgue and invited the world press in to see the bodies, which included hundreds of women and children toasted to a cinder. Propagandistically, it was quite a good day for Saddam. I later read the the bunker had been targeted because it held the families of many of the Ba'ath Party leadership, and that its destruction was considered quite significant in bringing the Gulf War to a close. No doubt Saddam sees the destruction of the WTC as a little payback, as indeed this article implies.