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To: long-gone who wrote (62857)	1/22/2001 6:49:32 PM
From: Square_Dealings	Respond to of 116759

"I'd bet some of his buds are still short. " Actually Clinton has to be short, otherwise he could of done a lot better than Monica -g- M

To: long-gone who wrote (62857)	1/22/2001 8:03:12 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116759

London Times. The middle east is being ignored or ignoring one or the other. CA's utility crisis will not go away rapidly in my opinion, nor will oil headaches. TUESDAY JANUARY 23 2001 Bush faces Saddam weapons challenge BY RICHARD BEESTON, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR THE Bush Administration came under pressure yesterday to take action against Iraq after intelligence reports suggested that President Saddam Hussein has rebuilt his chemical and biological weapons factories. On his first day in office Mr Bush was confronted with a challenge from his father’s old adversary, suspected by Britain and the United States of trying to rearm itself with weapons of mass destruction. Under Anglo-American policy, any attempt by Iraq to produce nuclear, biological or chemical weapons would lead to military action. In his inauguration speech Mr Bush pledged to confront weapons of mass destruction and although he did not name Iraq, it was clear that he had Baghdad in mind. Last week he said that he would be prepared to attack Iraq if weapons of mass destruction were being developed there. An industrial complex in Falluja, a town west of Baghdad, may provide the pretext for military action, according to The New York Times. Factories at the site were monitored by the United Nations weapons inspectors who were forced to leave Iraq in 1998. The site was then attacked by American and British aircraft in Operation Desert Fox. Two of the factories have been rebuilt and another has resumed production. The three are “dual use”, meaning that they have civilian and military capabilities. One factory produces chlorine, which has commercial applications but can be used in poison gas. Another makes castor oil for brake fluid but can produce the biological toxin ricin. “Our information tallies with the American assessment,” a British official said. “We are very suspicious about these factories, but we do not have proof that they are making weapons of mass destruction. That is why we want weapons inspectors back on the ground to investigate.” An American expert on the Middle East said that if President Bush acts against Iraq “it will not be a pinprick, it will be strong and decisive”. Washington, however, no longer has the international support for action against Iraq that it could once count upon. France and Russia are seeking an end to sanctions against the country and are likely to receive oil contracts when the embargo is lifted. The Arab world has been angered by support for the sanctions by Western countries and their failure to intervene to end the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr Bush may have no option but to act if he wants to contain Saddam. On New Year’s Eve the Iraqi Armed Forces paraded several hundred tanks and 60 helicopters which have been refitted since the Gulf War. American and British jets attacked targets yesterday in the south and north of Iraq, an Iraqi military spokesman said. No casualties were reported. The aircraft, which took off from Kuwait and Turkey, were patrolling no-fly zones set up after the Gulf War.