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Old 11th May 2003, 14:56
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sirwa69
 
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The Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, has been found!
He has taken up a new job under a different name at the Ukraine Defense Ministry.


Disputing the witness accounts, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Kostiantyn Khyvrenko said that about 40 seconds after takeoff from Kinshasa, the aircraft captain noted that the cabin was depressurizing, requested a landing and successfully returned the aircraft to the airport. He cited officials of the state-owned company that operates the aircraft, Ukrainian Cargo Airways.
"Neither the people, nor the cargo, nor the plane itself were hurt or damaged," Khyvrenko told The Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine.
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