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To: Les H who wrote (152035)	2/19/2002 8:40:56 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 436258

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To: Les H who wrote (152035)	2/19/2002 8:56:58 AM
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Saddam training kamikaze pilots, intelligence expert says If the U.S. attacks Iraq in the coming months, Saddam Hussein is prepared to employ the same kamikaze tactics used by terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden on 9/11 to attack American and Israeli military forces in the Mideast, a renowned intelligence expert said Sunday. "The Israeli's have told me that they have discovered intelligence that there are a whole stash of Iraqi suicide pilots prepared and training," said Gordon Thomas, author of the chilling new book "Seeds of Fire." In an interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, Thomas said that Saddam's kamikazes will strike "the U.S. fleet assembling in the Arabian Sea, (U.S.) forces assembling in Kuwait, which would be the launching pad for the land attack, and, of course, against Israel." "They've identified at least one group of 50 suicide pilots who are based outside Baghdad," the author explained. "They think by early March there could be at least 200 of these suicide pilots." The Iraqi kamikazes would use the planes salvaged during Desert Storm when they were flown to safe haven in Iran, the second of three countries labeled the "Axis of Evil" by President Bush two weeks ago. Thomas said Iraq has also been building its air force with Russian-designed MIGs obtained from China. "These are all one-way-ticket-planes," he warned. An Israeli source told the author that the Iraqi death pilots have become adept at flying "desert-hugging" missions that would be difficult to detect by radar. "We'd have only minutes, literally minutes, to pick them off," the Israeli said. Thomas was told that if even one plane penetrated Israeli defenses and was able to strike the Demona nuclear facility, "we could expect a sort of wipe out in terms of nuclear damage." The noted intelligence expert predicted that hostilities would begin by late spring. "The expectation is that the United Nations will insist on the return of inspectors in the first week of May.... (And)Iraq is going to say, 'No, absolutely not,' Thomas told Malzberg. "I spoke to an Iraqi contact who I count on for information and he said, 'We do not intend to let back in these inspectors because they are U.N. spies.' "That's going to be the signal for a war to go," Thomas said.