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To: Square_Dealings who wrote (82715)	3/1/2002 8:53:48 AM
From: Gord Bolton	Respond to of 116796

Uh, I think that they attacked Iraq yesterday morning. Message 17127761

To: Square_Dealings who wrote (82715)	3/2/2002 9:55:00 PM
From: Gord Bolton	Respond to of 116796

It does look like things are shaping up to something. "In the past week, according to those sources, there were a number of key developments: US special forces landed in small units in northern Iraq; the United States and Israel completed the deployment of a US-Israeli air and missile defense system for protecting Israeli air space from Iraqi missiles and air attack. The system should have been in place and ready for action in mid-December, but there were delays in the deployment of Israeli Arrow anti-missile missile batteries. To bridge the gap, the United States in the last two weeks airlifted additional batteries of upgraded Patriot missiles. They were deployed last week near Israel’s major cities. US and Israeli intelligence have taken into account that Saddam Hussein and the Lebanese Hizballah might decide not to wait for the Americans to strike first but mount a pre-emptive attack. In the past two weeks too, as Palestinian terrorist attacks progressively paralyzed Israel’s city centers and main transportation routes, Israeli policy-makers and strategists came to realize a hard fact: It was not much use to secure the country against hostile missiles and planes if Palestinian terrorists maintained a stranglehold on national highways and army camps by keeping them under constant attack. Israel therefore decided on the destruction of the al-Aqsa Brigades in the Balata and Jenin refugee camps as a top priority, to enable free military movement in the event of war." debka.com