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To: BigBull who wrote (16420)	1/14/2002 2:34:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

This assasination plan shows clearly how little Al Quaeda understands the West. They plan to show their own power and destabilize the West. But no Western democracy will be destabilized by the loss of its head of state; the successor will just be sworn into office. It would work very well to galvanize permanent public support for the War on Terror, though.

To: BigBull who wrote (16420)	1/14/2002 3:53:26 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm sorry, but that piece was a little over the top. How, exactly, was it determined that some staged-for-video exercise in Afghanistan represented an attack on "what appeared to be a road system in Washington D.C."? And when do "WORLD leaders" assemble on the golf course in quantities greater than 2? I imagine there'll be a relatively continuous flow of leakage like this for a while, but WORLD leaders typically have much better security around them than the 4 doomed flights of 9/11 had. The pretzel threat is another story, though.