White House Correspondents John King and Eileen O'Connor, Correspondents Christiane Amanpour, Richard Roth, Jamie McIntyre and Reuters contributed to this report.

CNN: Clinton

The Iraqis told the Americans they had taken off their uniforms and wanted to surrender because they did not want to die for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, reported CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who witnessed the incident.

CNN: Iraq promises more suicide bombings

There are neatly executed pen portraits of scores of individuals not only politicians, diplomats and generals but also journalists, such as Christiane Amanpour and Roy Gutman, whose crusading reportage from the Bosnian killing-fields helped to make American policy more assertive.

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