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30 July Update: The UK police statement Saturday, July 30, that Hussein Osman left London by Waterloo Station for a journey that ended in Rome indicates that he took the Eurostar to Paris and then crossed France to Rome by TGV. They claim to have tracked his route from London across France by his mobile phone. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts find this account hard to credit. While warning the British public that the four escaped terrorists had access to more explosives, the London police would hardly have let a dangerous suicide bomber slip out of their hands if they knew his...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A Lebanese translator who disappeared in the first week of the Iraq war was killed in the same firefight that claimed the life of a veteran British TV correspondent, the translator's employer, ITN DNA tests carried out by British military investigators indicate that remains found at the site of the gunbattle are those of Hussein Osman, ITN said in a statement. Osman's father, Hosni Osman, told The Associated Press the British Embassy in Beirut told him his son's body had been found and that it would be flown to Lebanon for burial within the next two weeks....

Terry Lloyd killed in Iraq 17.00PM GMT, 23 Mar 2003 There is now sufficient evidence to believe that ITV News Correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in an incident on the Southern Iraq war front yesterday. It is believed his body is in a Basra hospital, which is still under Iraqi control. Two members of his team, Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman, are still missing and currently there is no information on their whereabouts or condition. The ITN team came under fire, apparently from Coalition forces, outside Basra. Iraqi ambulances took a number of dead and injured from the area into...