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To: Thomas M. who wrote (12675)	3/15/2002 2:20:43 PM
From: hal jordan	Respond to of 23908

>>When Israel conquers land from its neighboring Arabs, the expression used is that they are "redeeming" the land.<< Methinks you have it twisted backwards. When Israel's "friendly" Arab neighbors mass to attack them as in '67 and '73, they get their just desserts by losing land. Is it any wonder they feel they need a security zone with neighbors like that...

To: Thomas M. who wrote (12675)	3/16/2002 5:40:26 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Europeans discount a Saddam link to Sept. 11 David Ignatius International Herald Tribune Saturday, March 16, 2002 PARIS How can the United States sell a war against Iraq to skeptical Arabs and Europeans? A good start would be to level with them and admit there is no solid evidence linking Baghdad to Osama bin Laden's terrorist attacks against America. In the first months after Sept. 11, some prominent U.S. commentators pushed the idea that an Al Qaeda terrorist, Mohamed Atta, had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer named Ahmed Khalil Samir Ani. The key meeting supposedly took place in April 2001, as Atta was plotting the deadly operation that was to destroy the World Trade Center five months later. The problem, according to senior European officials, is that the hard intelligence to support the Baghdad-bin Laden connection is somewhere between "slim" and "none." A senior European official said that Atta did visit Prague once, in 2000, but there is no solid evidence he met with Iraqi intelligence. What's more, according to these European officials, there is strong evidence to the contrary - directly undermining the theory of an "Iraq connection." The officials said intelligence reports indicate that Saddam personally decided against allowing bin Laden and Al Qaeda to use Iraq as a base because he feared they might destabilize his regime. According to the European officials, the CIA now shares their skepticism about the Atta- Ani connection - although they said some Pentagon officials continued to believe it's true. Even the Czechs, who initially put out the reports about Atta's meeting with Ani, have gradually backed away. The European officials discounting the Iraq connection, it should be noted, are no friends of Saddam. They recognize that he has been involved in many terrorist operations in the past. The case for taking action against his regime, they contend, must be built on solid evidence of his efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction - not on dubious reports of links to Al Qaeda. [snip] iht.com Well.... now that the Atta-Iraq connection is debunked, what of Atta's courtesy visit(s) to Israel in 2001?? But hey, don't get me wrong... I'm not floating the idea of "bombing Israel" <g> Gus