Verbatim: Oct. 11, 2004

"I picked up the body of my grandson. He was cut in half."

RASHID SALIH, Iraqi citizen, after three car bombs exploded near a crowd of soldiers and civilians, mostly children, at the opening of a U.S.-funded sewage-treatment plant in Iraq

"The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it."

TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, in a speech to members of his Labour Party in Brighton

"I assure you that we will prevail, and we will be successful, and Iraq...

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