Iraq vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan has appeared at a televised press conference, the second of a trio of Iraqi officials American spokesmen had declared killed in the Wednesday "decapitation attack." Yesterday, we posted a New York Times story suggesting that Ali Hassan al-Majid, another of the Iraqi officials declared dead, was, in fact, alive. The third man is Izzat Ibrahim.

Maybe he'll appear tomorrow. Splendid thugs all, none merits the publicity he's received.