Saddam probably survived cruise missile attack

IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein probably survived a cruise missile attack on leadership compounds in Baghdad but was reportedly taken away in an ambulance, British Foreign Office minister Mike O’Brien has said.

“All I can tell you is this: that it appears that after the event (Thursday) we received information that Saddam Hussein left the area in an ambulance,” he told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend.

“There was some talk that he had been injured, even some suggestion that he had been killed.