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Fri 04 Apr 2003A ghost airport, undefended, soon to be a battlefield
IRAQ: Welcome to Saddam International - no queues and no planes, as Lara Marlowe discovered on an eerie visit before last night's assault
No, absolutely not. There were no US or British soldiers near the airport, the Information Minister, Mr Mohamed Said al-Sahaf, insisted at his 2 p.m. briefing yesterday. The Americans were "on the move everywhere, a snake moving in the desert", he said. "They hold no place in Iraq."
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