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The Dow Jones industrial average gained 53.92 points, or聽0.75 percent, to end at 7,223.98. The Standard Poor 500 Index rose 5.81聽points, or 0.77 percent, to 756.55. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 5.40聽points, or 0.38 percent, to 1,431.50.Market optimism was boosted Friday by reports circulating聽that Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons said the bank won ;t need additional聽government support after receiving three rounds of emergency funding.Early this week, Citigroup said it was having its best聽quarter since 2007 and Bank of America Corp. chief executive Ken Lewis said聽his bank was profitable in January and February. General Motors Corp. said聽Thursday it won
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Reports indicated President Saddam Hussein and his sons may have been there, but officials said it would take time to confirm who was killed or injured.A leadership target was hit very hard, said Marine Major Brad Bartelt, a spokesman for U.S
stanley cup . Central Command in Qatar.U.S. intelligence officials indicated Saddam may have been in the building or a possible underlying bunker located in the western Baghdad neighborhood known as al-Mansour with his two sons Uday and Qusay, who also hold leadership positions in the regime.I don ;t know whether he survived, President George W. Bush said at a Tuesday press conference in Northern Ireland where he was meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The only thing I know is that he losing power 8230; Saddam Hussein will be gone. It
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jordan pound bunker buster bombs, which are designed to burrow deep into the earth, left a 60 foot 8220 moking crater where the house and suspected bunker once stood.The Associated Press reported that the targeted building was a restaurant, which was completely destroyed along with two other buildings.The
