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To: Bilow who wrote (124558)	2/9/2004 10:54:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Ya sure, the perfumed princes of the Pentagon cry to reporters, if only Rumsfeld had listened to us, everything would have been perfect! Riiiiight. Meantime, the Americans just intercepted a memo from Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to some Al Qaeda honcho in Iran, and he doesn't sound half so sanguine about his situation as you do. In fact: The memo says extremists are failing to enlist support inside the country, and have been unable to scare the Americans into leaving. It even laments Iraq's lack of mountains in which to take refuge. Yet mounting an attack on Iraq's Shiite majority could rescue the movement, according to the document. The aim, the document contends, is to prompt a counterattack against the Arab Sunni minority ... With some exasperation, the author writes: "We can pack up and leave and look for another land, just like what has happened in so many lands of jihad. Our enemy is growing stronger day after day, and its intelligence information increases. "By God, this is suffocation!" the writer says. Message 19785944

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