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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (37731)	8/13/2002 11:06:35 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "This [shipping of chemical warfare antidotes] was also reported by the mainstream Israeli papers later." (1) This is not a military operation. No one did anything violent to anyone. It's just a shipment. What I asked for was examples where Debka predicted military action, not shipment of goods. (2) The chemical warfare antidotes were supposedly for the attack on Iraq. This was back in early January. No such attack happened. (3) A heck of lot of what Debka reports shows up in mainstream papers later. That's not an indication that it's factual. (4) Since any accurate information is surrounded by big piles of BS, it makes any such accurate information useless. (5) The truth of the matter is that none of us care much whether or not chemical warfare antidotes were shipped to Tel Aviv or not. What we cared about was when the attack on Iraq was going to occur. On the big picture, Debka flubbed. (6) The chemical warfare antidote stuff has been going on in Israel since long before 9/11. For example, this is from September 1, 2000: Since the end of the war, there have been several alerts about possible Iraqi attacks on Israel, sending citizens rushing to distribution centers to update their army-issue gas masks and chemical warfare antidotes. No unusual activity was reported at the centers Friday. cbsnews.com Now with 9/11, it seems obvious to me that the US would have to ship stuff like this to Israel. People "update" their gas masks, the government runs out of the stuff, it calls up the US, the US sends more. Doesn't that seem obvious to you? But what Debka did was tie this in to their ongoing fantasy that the US was going to remove the Iraqi bogeyman from Israel's nightmares. -- Carl P.S. The black fact on the lack of the attack on Iraq is that Debka has been predicting that it is going to happen within four weeks for all of the last 40 weeks. They're not "early", they're just wrong.