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To: JPR who wrote (12381)	7/11/2002 8:44:04 AM
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Poison Gas on Kurds- PBS special tonight If there is an idiot and MFB out there, please report to me in order to contradict these powerful images. Is there a resident MFB to join the discussion? Good people are always welcome.--JPR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wide Angle" is the title of the program. Seeking to Link Iraq to Poison Gas and bin Laden By CARYN JAMES NYtimes.com The Arts Section Many people were collapsing around us and dying," says a Kurdish man who survived a poison gas attack. "The gas smelled of garlic and rotten apples." As he recalls that day, we see videotape shot immediately after the attack. The gas - a combination including the nerve gas sarin and cyanide - caused paralysis and death so fast that the stonelike corpses littering the ground look flash-frozen, fists clenched, one child's arm still lifted in the air. The attack, launched by Saddam Hussein in 1988 in his own country, hit the town of Halabja and was meant to punish the Kurds for their resistance to his control. That story is only one part of tonight's extraordinary documentary "Saddam's Ultimate Solution," the timeliest possible beginning to "Wide Angle," a 10-week PBS series on varied international issues. Only last week Iraq once again refused to let United Nations weapons inspectors into the country, and much front-page news has focused on the Bush administration's possible plans to topple Mr. Hussein and on the role the Kurds might play in such a move. In this hourlong film, its reporter and producer, Gwynne Roberts, travels to Iraqi Kurdistan searching for links between Mr. Hussein and Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by a doctor studying the long-term effects of poison gas on the towns and villages (more than 200 of them) attacked by Mr. Hussein in the late 1980's. The Hussein-Bin Laden connection is the more explosive subject. The claims are chilling if true, but while the evidence is convincing it remains unproved here. The effects of the poison gas, however, are viscerally, undeniably horrifying. On both counts the narrative and the images in "Saddam's Ultimate Solution" are as gripping as any drama.