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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

"Nyet," says the Russian ambassador to Iraq.

Ambassador Vladimir Titirenko told Moscow's NTV, "I am confident that the Iraqi generals entered into a secret deal with the Americans to refrain from resistance in exchange for sparing their lives."

Titorenko also told NTV that it was "most probable" that Saddam and his top aides were killed during America's aerial bombardment of his many bunkers.

Le Monde also reported that Maher Sufyan, commander of the Republican Guard, reached an agreement with American forces in which he ordered his forces to surrender in exchange for his transfer via an American Apache helicopter to an undisclosed safe haven.

Quoting anonymous sources, Le Monde's correspondent in Baghdad said that Sufyan ordered all Republican Guard forces to lay down their arms and go home.

Shortly thereafter, an Apache helicopter escorted Sufyan from the Al Rashid camp, east of Baghdad, to an unknown location.

Maher Sufyan is not included on the infamous "deck of death" cards created by U.S. defense officials to highlight the most wanted individuals from Saddam Hussein's government.

Iraq's popular information minister, Mohammed Saeed Al Sahaf, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and Oumid Medhat Mubarak, the minister of health, are also not included on the list.

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