From: David N. Barnett 

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:13:10 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote in message :

| Saddam speaks english, how fluent I'm not sure (although each time he
heard | footsteps overhead in previous raids he probably memorized those
lines over | and over), but he was surely feigning total ignorance when Dan
Rather | trotted on over for his exclusive interview before the war :-)

Before he became the leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin used to speak English
pretty well too.

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