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To: hmaly who wrote (144923)	4/14/2002 12:45:20 AM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572946

re: "Saddam Hussein is a general and military leader" Hm... maybe my point was not correct but I see the example was not applicable. So if Saddam was a legitimate target then the US military was just were never able to nail him or was his additional position as the government leader make him off limits? My recollections are mixed but it seemed like the media reports were saying his elimination would be good but the military wasn't targeting him. Of course this was the media. -PT

To: hmaly who wrote (144923)	4/14/2002 2:33:30 AM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

hmaly, re: "therefore targeting him is not an act against an individual, but rather an attack against a military target" I did a little more research. While I agree that Saddam was a legitimate military target he was also a foreign leader and Ford's executive order prohibits assassination of foreign leaders. So while the military could pursue targets which might contain Saddam they could not specifically target Saddam. AFAIK this order has been reconsidered after 9/11 but not reversed. My web searching didn't find a nice link on what is and what is not "allowed" by this order. I am not sure how the US managed to bomb Qadafi's (sp?) house while staying within the limits. -PT