Nothing so far in the Guardian - and it's as easy for you to check the paper as for me, Doug - Guardian online. Lots of American conservatives do just that, and there are a fair number of letters in the paper's letters page that reflect this.

Publishing them is the kind of thing that goes with being a paper with liberal sensibilities. And in this sense of the word, the right wing Conservative paper, the Daily Telegraph, shares the same kind of liberal sensibilities, carrying letters frrom people who disagree markedly with it's politics. (And carrying new stories regarless of whether they might embarass its political friends.)

I would imagine they'd both be looking into this story, and trying to check it out, and I'll be surprised if it doesn't reach the news columns here before long.

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"I'm just glad he's a good shot." Of course, if being a good shot, and having an ability to deal effectively with people who piss him off, are all that really matters, it would have been simpler to leave Allawi's old mate Saddam in power.