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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (21525)	9/25/2000 7:57:16 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

LOL! That and Dr. Poop tie for "Stocks with scatalogically-referenced nicknames priced under $1.50".....(BTW, I thought it was "Durban-Deep-In-$hit")<G>

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (21525)	9/25/2000 8:13:36 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Oil bears get "Saddam-ized" once again: ap.tbo.com Sep 25, 2000 - 06:54 PM Saddam Warns Saudi, Kuwait Not to Push Iraq to the Brink By Leon Barkho Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - President Saddam Hussein on Monday issued a stern warning against Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to stop provoking Iraq by offering logistical support to the United States and Britain. Saddam accused the Saudi and Kuwaiti governments of pushing the people of Iraq into a confrontation. "But if things come to a head," then Iraq knows how to confront them, he said. Addressing a hurriedly convened news conference nearly two hours after Saddam's comments were carried by the official Iraqi News Agency, Information Minister Humam Abdel-Khaliq said Iraq had no intention to attack Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. "The president's talk contains no threat and I assure you that we have no intention of taking military action against Kuwait or any other state," he said. It quoted him as saying that, without Saudi and Kuwaiti blessing, the United States would not be able to continue enforcing no-fly zones and keep Iraq under crippling U.N. trade sanctions. He urged the two nations not to push Iraq to the brink of confrontation. "May they (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) think deeply and in a manner that is far-sighted," he said. Monday's warning was the harshest by Saddam to the two countries since a U.S.-led force pressed the Iraqi army out of Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War. It also follows similar warnings made by Iraq this month against Kuwait, accusing it of stealing Iraqi crude oil from a field straddling the border. His remarks are expected to inflame a jittery oil market as skyrocketing prices saw some relief on Monday following last week's U.S. decision to dip into America's strategic oil reserves. Saddam himself said he had no intention to attack Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, but urged his two neighbors "not to force our people to exert pressure on us in this manner." He said the two countries, together with the United States, are "waging a war against us via the embargo and warplanes, killing children, women and the elderly." "They (Saudi and Kuwait) will say Saddam Hussein is threatening us. Look how impolite they have become," he said. Saddam's warning coincides with the opening in Venezuela of a crucial OPEC summit in which Iraq is represented by Vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan who, in remarks carried by Iraqi News Agency, said Iraq will press OPEC heads of state to steer the cartel away from foreign influence, particularly that of the United States. Ramadan accused the United States, the world's largest oil consumer, of pursuing a policy that is "exploitative and detrimental" to the interests of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Despite U.N. trade sanctions imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq is now a key oil producer with an average output of 3 million barrels a day. Volatile markets fear Iraq may cut off or reduce supplies, sending already record high prices into a tailspin as most producers are producing near or at maximum capacity. Ramadan also said Iraq will try to underline what he described as "negative practices" by some OPEC members to increase production and flood markets unilaterally, in an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia.