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Saddam eyed radio attack

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic's counterintelligence service said yesterday.

Iraqi spies posing as diplomats were supposed to have carried out the attack, from a window of an apartment building near the radio's location in downtown Prague. The service said it learned in 2000 that Saddam had ordered the attack but it did not say when the alleged order was issued or when the attack was supposed to occur.