] "As I speak to you, we are cruising across where the
] Iraqi desert meets the Jordanian desert, though a desert
] wind and a rain storm," Dan Rather said. "I haven%u2019t
] had as much sleep as I sometimes do."
]
] It was late on Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Mr. Rather, 71, was
] speaking via a crackling cell phone from a car racing
] himself and his CBS News colleagues away from Baghdad,
] barely a day after they had scored one of the most
] sought-after journalistic exclusives of the year: an
] interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Set to air
] on 60 Minutes II on Feb. 26, it is Mr. Hussein%u2019s
] first interview with an American journalist in more than
] 10 years.

I'm not sure if anybody else has posted a similar article. I found it very interesting.