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To: Bill who wrote (217927)	2/12/2007 12:27:24 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Here is an example to show you the problem. The Saudis set up a hospital in Baghdad. Now them being a "moderate state" and an "ally", and a hospital being a humanitarian project, we cannot tell them no. But it turned out that the hospital was a front for Saudi intelligent operations. Next example, Jordan provides refugee support and legitimate supplies to Iraq. They are also another "moderate state" and an "ally". The volume of the transaction is just too high and you cannot just exclude the Jordanians from the border (them being allies and all). So guess what else slips through the border? Egypt is another "moderate state" and "ally". Egypt is keen on war on terror. So when they send envoys to the region, we cannot really tell them no. Who these envoys contact, what information they give them, and how much money changes hands, is not something that you can control once the envoy is in. I suggest you watch the movie, "The Lord of War" (starring Nicolas Cage). Although a fictional dramatization, all the major events in the movie actually happened and there is more truth to the movie than dramatization.

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