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Bush has Saddam's pistol: report
From correspondents in Washington
May 30, 2004

US President George W Bush has been given a pistol Saddam Hussein had with him when he was captured and now proudly shows it to selected guests, Time magazine reported today.

The gun was taken from Saddam by US special forces when they caught the ousted president in a spider hole near his home town Tikrit last December, the report said.

The military had the pistol mounted, and it was presented to the president privately by some of the troops who ferreted out Saddam, Time said, citing unnamed sources.

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"He really liked showing it off," the report quotes an unnamed recent visitor to the White House as saying. "He was really proud of it."

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