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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44392)	11/21/2001 4:31:39 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

Jim, I heard that the Iraqi ship was already floundering when it was boarded & it sank shortly after we boarded it. BTW, they did find it had oil hidden under a small layer of wheat. The two seamen & several members of the boarded ship are lost & they are still searching for them, but they are presumed dead...................... Here, just found this story on CNN.com................ Body of Iraqi crewman found in Gulf November 21, 2001 Posted: 10:08 AM EST (1508 GMT) MANAMA, Bahrain (Reuters) -- U.S. forces in the Gulf have found the body of an Iraqi who was among two U.S. servicemen and three Iraqis missing since a tanker suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil sank this week, a U.S. spokesperson said on Wednesday. The Navy spokesperson at the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain said search teams found the body on Tuesday and the remaining four missing seamen were now presumed dead. "We're now focussing on recovery efforts. We are presuming that all the missing are now dead," the spokesperson told Reuters. The overloaded Samra, which was flying the flag of the United Arab Emirates, sank on Sunday after being boarded by a U.S. team enforcing U.N. sanctions against Iraq. The ship was ordered to go to an area used by multinational forces as a holding bay for vessels carrying contraband when it went down off in international waters off Kuwait. The Navy attributed the vessel's sinking to bad weather and its derelict condition. The United Arab Emirates said the 1,734-tonne Samra was illegally flying its flag and that it was actually registered in Panama. The two Americans who were on board the Samra when it sank were part of an eight-member boarding party from the USS Peterson. The three Iraqis were among the ship's 14-member crew. The Pentagon said the Navy rescued 10 Iraqi crew members and recovered the body of another Iraqi. The incident was the latest in a series of accidents involving ships carrying Iraqi oil in the Gulf in recent months. Iraq, under international sanctions since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, is allowed to sell oil under close U.N. supervision. cnn.com

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (44392)	11/21/2001 5:34:42 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

jim...in the main, I think you're on track. Yes, totally agree that Saddam is probably taking a hell of a lot of Pepsid AC about right now. I don't have quite the sense of forEboding WRT the rest of the region. WRT to the oil, if I'm a client and have two substantial producers dukeing it out over who gets a piece of me, I would say that I'm going to wind up with the best deal possible. The Russian part of the oil supply equation, as it plays out over the next year or so, is interesting. I don't think our economy, Long term, is that bad: so the perception the Arabs have of our vulnerability is minimal. JMO. I remain optimistic. TO ALL: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!