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The '''death of Saddam Hussein''' has been reported as a strong possibility by analysts associated with the US military, since a precision bombing attack in [[Baghdad]] shortly after the [[2003 Iraq war]] began. Videotapes released after the attack have not convinced US analysts that [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam]] is still alive. 

One tape showed a man who looks like Saddam wearing glasses and reading from handwritten notes. Analysts seized upon the glasses and notes as two big differences from Saddam's usual TV appearances. Additionally, a former mistress of the Iraqi dictator said it was not him: the man's cheeks were too puffy. 

Another tape provided only vague references to the progress of the war and could have been prepared in advance. It also praised a military leader for an attack, although that leader had already surrendered to US forces. [http://www.msnbc.com/news/889289_asp.htm?0cv=CB10]

==Links==
*[http://www.msnbc.com/news/889289_asp.htm?0cv=CB10 MSNBC News article1991 World Championships in Athletics''' under the auspices of the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] were held in the [[Olympic Stadium (Tokyo)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] between [[August 23]] and [[September 1]].

The event is best-remembered for the men's [[long jump]] competition, when [[Carl Lewis]] made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by [[Mike Powell]], whose 8.95 m jump broke [[Bob Beamon]]'s epic world record from the [[1968 Summer Olympics]].

==Medal Winners==

===Medal table by country===
{| border="1" Cellpadding="1"
|'''''Position'''''
|'''Country:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"|'''Bronze:'''
|'''Total: '''
|-
|1.
|[[United States of America|USA]]
|10
|10
|8
|28
|-
|2.
|[[USSR]]
|9
|9
|11
|29
|-
|3.
|[[Germany]]
|5
|4
|8
|17
|-
|4.
|[[Kenya]]
|4
|3
|1
|8
|-
|5.
|[[Great Britain]]
|2
|2
|3
|7
|-
|6.
|[[China]]
|2
|1
|1
|4
|-
|7.
|[[Algeria]]
|2
|0
|1
|3
|-
|8.
|[[Jamaica]]
|1
|1
|3
|5
|-
|9.
|[[Finland]]
|1
|1
|1
|3
|-
|10=
|[[France]]
|1
|1
|0
|2
|-
|10=
|[[Japan]]
|1
|1
|0
|2
|-
|12=
|[[Bulgaria]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|-
|12=
|[[Italy]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|-
|12=
|[[Poland]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|-
|12=
|[[Switzerland]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|-
|12=
|[[Zambia]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|-
|17.
|[[Cuba]]
|0
|2
|0
|2
|-
|18=
|[[Canada]]
|0
|1
|1
|2
|-
|18=
|[[Hungary]]
|0
|1
|1
|2
|-
|18=
|[[Romania]]
|0
|1
|1
|2
|-
|21=
|[[Brazil]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Djibouti]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Ethiopia]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Namibia]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Netherlands]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Norway]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|21=
|[[Sweden]]
|0
|1
|0
|1
|-
|28.
|[[Morocco]]
|0
|0
|2
|2
|-
|29.
|[[Spain]]
|0
|0
|1
|1
|-
|}

===[[Track and field|Track]]===
{| border="1" Cellpadding="2"
|'''Event:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"|'''Bronze:'''
|-
|100 m Men
|[[Carl Lewis]], USA 
|[[Leroy Burrell]], USA
|[[Dennis Mitchell]], USA 
|-
|100 m Women
|[[Katrin Krabbe]], Germany
|[[Gwen Torrence]], USA
|[[Merlene Ottey]], Jamaica
|-
|100 m Hurdles Women
|[[Lyudmila Narozhilenko]], USSR
|[[Gail Devers-Roberts]], USA
|[[Natalya Grigoryeva]], USSR
|-
|110 m Hurdles Men
|[[Greg Foster]], USA
|[[Jack Pierce]], USA
|[[Tony Jarrett]], Great Britain
|-
|200 m Men
|[[Michael Johnson (athlete)|Michael Johnson]], USA
|[[Frankie Fredericks]], Namibia
|[[Atlee Mahorn]], Canada
|-
|200 m Women
|[[Katrin Krabbe]], Germany
|[[Gwen Torrence]], USA
|[[Merlene Ottey]], Jamaica
|-
|400 m Men
|[[Antonio Pettigrew]], USA
|[[Roger Black]], Great Britain
|[[Danny Everett]], USA
|-
|400 m Women
|[[Marie-José Perec]], France
|[[Grit Breuer]], Germany
|[[Sandra Myers]], Spain
|-
|400 m Hurdles Men
|[[Samuel Matete]], Zambia 
|[[Winthrop Graham]], JAmaica
|[[Kriss Akabusi]], Great Britain
|-
|400 m Hurdles Women
|[[Tatyana Ledovskaya]], USSr
|[[Sally Gunnell]], Great Britain
|[[Janeene Vickers]], USA
|-
|800 m Men
|[[Billy Konchellah]], Kenya
|[[José Barbosa]], Brazil
|[[Mark Everett (athlete)|Mark Everett]], USA
|-
|800 m Women
|[[Liliya Nurutdinova]], USSR
|[[Ana Fidelia Quirot]], Cuba
|[[Ella Kovacs]], Romania
|-
|1500 m Men
|[[Noureddine Morceli]], Algeria 
|[[Wilfred Kirochi]], Kenya
|[[Hauke Fuhlbrügge]], Germany 
|-
|1500 m Women
|[[Hassiba Boulmerka]], Algeria
|[[Tatyana Dorovskikh]], USSR
|[[Lyudmila Rogachova]], USSR
|-
|3,000 m Steeplechase Men
|[[Moses Kiptanui]], Kenya 
|[[Patrick Sang]], Kenya
|[[Azzedine Brahmi]], Algeria
|-
|5,000 m Men
|[[Yobes Ondieki]], Kenya 
|[[Fita Bayissa]], Ethiopia
|[[Brahim Boutayeb]], Morocco
|-
|5,000 m Women
|[[Tatyana Dorovskikh]], USSR
|[[Yelena Romanova]], USSR
|[[Susan Sirma]], Kenya
|-
|10,000 m Men
|[[Moses Tanui]], Kenya
|[[Richard Chelimo]], Kenya 
|[[Khalid Skah]], Morocco 
|-
|10,000 m Women
|[[Liz McColgan]], Great Britain
|[[Zhong Huandi]], China
|[[Wang Xiuting]], China
|-
|Marathon Men
|[[Hiromi Taniguchi]], Japan
|[[Ahmed Salah]], Djibouti
|[[Steve Spence]], USA
|-
|Marathon Women
|[[Wanda Panfil]], Poland
|[[Sachiko Yamashita]], Japan
|[[Katrin Dörre]], Germany
|-
|10 km Walk Women
|[[Alina Ivanova]], USSR 
|[[Madelein Svensson]], Sweden
|[[Sari Essayah]], Finland 
|-
|20 km Walk Men
|[[Maurizio Damilano]], Italy
|[[Mikhail Shchennikov]], USSR
|[[Yevgeniy Misyulya]], USSR
|-
|50 km Walk Men
|[[Aleksandr Potashov]], USSR
|[[Andrey Perlov]], USSR
|[[Hartwig Gauder]], Germany
|-
|4 x 100 m Relay Men
|USA
|France 
|Great Britain 
|-
|4 x 100 m Women
|Jamaica
|USSR
|Germany
|-
|4 x 400 m Men
|Great Britain
|USA
|Jamaica
|-
|4 x 400 m Women
|USSR
|USA
|Germany
|-
|}

===[[Track and field|Field]]===
{| border="1" Cellpadding="2"
|'''Event:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver:'''
|!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"|'''Bronze:'''
|-
|[[Long Jump]] Men
|[[Mike Powell]], USA
|[[Carl Lewis]], USA
|[[Larry Myricks]], USA
|-
|[[Long Jump]] Women
|[[Jackie Joyner-Kersee]], USA
|[[Heike Drechsler]], Germany
|[[Larisa Berezhnaya]], USSR
|-
|[[Triple Jump]] Men
|[[Kenny Harrison]], USA
|[[Leonid Voloshin]], USSR
|[[Mike Conley]], USA
|-
|[[high jump]] Men
|[[Charles Austin]], USA
|[[Javier Sotomayor]], Cuba
|[[Hollis Conway]], USA
|-
|[[high jump]] Women
|[[Heike Henkel]], Germany
|[[Yelena Yelesina]], USSR
|[[Inga Babakova]], USSR
|-
|[[javelin throw]] Men
|[[Kimmo Kinnunen]], Finland
|[[Seppo Räty]], Finland
|[[Vladimir Sasimovich]], USSR
|-
|[[javelin throw]] Women
|[[Xu Demei]], China
|[[Petra Meier]], Germany
|[[Silke Renk]], Germany
|-
|[[Discus]] Men
|[[Lars Riedel]], Germany
|[[Erik de Bruin]], Netherlands
|[[Attila Horváth]], Hungary
|-
|[[Discus]] Women
|[[Tsvetanka Khristova]], Bulgaria
|[[Ilke Wyludda]], Germany
|[[Larisa Mikhalchenko]], USSR
|-
|Hammer Men
|[[Yuriy Sedykh]], USSR
|[[Igor Astapkovich]], USSR
|[[Heinz Weis]], Germany
|-
|[[Shot Put]] Men
|[[Werner Günthör]], Switzerland
|[[Lars Nilsen]], Norway
|[[Aleksandr Klimenko]], USSR
|-
|[[Shot Put]] Women
|[[Huang Zhihong]], China 
|[[Natalya Lisovskaya]], USSR
|[[Svetlana Krivelyova]], USSR
|-
|[[pole vault]] Men
|[[Sergey Bubka]], USSR
|[[István Bagyula]], Hungary
|[[Maksim Tarasov]], USSR
|-
|[[Heptathlon]] Women
|[[Sabine Braun]], Germany
|[[Liliana Nastase]], Romania
|[[Irina Belova]], USSR
|-
|[[Decathlon]] Men
|[[Dan O'Brien]], USA
|[[Mike Smith]], Canada
|[[Christian Schenk]], Germany
|-
|}

==References==
* http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH91/index.html

==See Also==

{{World Athletics Championships years}}

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