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To: aladin who wrote (36510)	8/8/2002 12:55:02 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 281500

"He has to know that even if we didn't nuke him for some WMD attack, the Israeli's would." Good point... But are we certain he is a rational survivor or just a lucky egomaniac? And, as you said, can we afford to be re-active if he is the latter? *********************************************** "The Iraqis may have been waging war against the US for 10 years without us even knowing about it," says Magnus Ranstorp, at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Iraq may have fought, using terrorism as the ultimate fifth column, to counter US sanctions and bombing. Plausible deniability is something Iraq ... would want to ensure, putting layer upon layer to hide their role." Ex-smuggler describes Iraqi plot to blow up US warship csmonitor.com