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To: Bruce L who wrote (21562)	9/21/2004 9:20:45 PM
From: Bruce L	of 23153

Re: "The Fall of Bagdad" by Jon Lee Anderson About an hour ago I was in my car listening to NPR as they were interviewing the above author who has been in Iraq for about a year. I liked the author enough to immediately order his book - which will be released on 9/23/04. The only thing I know about him is that he previously wrote a book, "Che Guevarra." The Disastrous Occupation To Date He details the failure of the occupation to this time: the dismissal of the Iraqi police and army and the resultant orgy of crime and revenge killings that took place in the vacuum thus created. He mentioned the failure of the U.S. to secure the Iraqi borders and the flood of "foreign fighters" who have come in. He said he personally witnessed some 60 come in. And so on. BUT HE ARGUES THAT THE US CANNOT NOW IN GOOD CONSCIENCE LEAVE He claims that the insurgents are now killing the intelligentsia of Iraq as part of a conscious plan. By intelligentsia he say he means physicians and university professors, etc., who do not toe-the-line of the insurgents. He said that these mainly "western educated" and secular Iraqis are the 'first corpses to be put on the pile.'(His words) He says that the object is to make the rest of the population "putty" in the hands of the insurgents. He said it is like the Taliban, but "worse." He says that the murder of these members of the intelligentsia goes not merely unpunished, but uninvestigated; that these intelligentsia are now starting to flee the country, that they cannot come close to paying the "$1000 a day that American contractors pay for their protection." He obviously did not have a lot of time, but his conclusion was something to the effect that 'America had to do whatever it takes to ameliorate the present situation.' He didn't appear to know what that was. But his concern for the Iraqi People was obvious. Bruce

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