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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43109)	8/16/2002 8:21:31 PM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Thank you Ike. That was very insightful. I also read through several of your other articles, then clicked on 'Bio', to find.... nada. Now if you are too modest to write a Bio, you ought to consider having one of your writing peers put one together for you. Good work; my kudoes to you.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43109)	8/17/2002 5:53:52 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi, hope all's well. This stood out in the weekend news. " Latest Developments Russia, Iraq to Sign $40B Deal (AP) - Russia and Iraq are preparing to sign a $40 billion economic cooperation plan, the Iraqi ambassador to Moscow said Saturday. The pact was likely to strain Moscow's relations with Washington as the United States considers a military attack against Baghdad. The five-year agreement envisions new cooperation in the fields of oil, irrigation, agriculture, railroads, other transportation sectors and electrical energy. " Putin/Russia haven't lost their international ambitions, nor should we believe they are anything but rivals even if they've helped open their oil supplies post 911. Imagine this scenario... whichever way Hussein's reign of power goes Russia is moving into the Iraqui oil fields. The Russian reserves are huge, combine that with a political and economic presense in Iraq then one can see a new super power arising on the world scene. I believe this is Putin's long term ambition, having abandoned the possibility of competing with the West in military might, they can regain equal world influence by gaining control over a large portion of the oil reserves.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43109)	8/19/2002 3:39:59 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Implementation of the "Gaza First" security plan, which involves a phased Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian areas, is to start in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank town of Bethlehem "within 48 hours," a senior aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Monday. Message #43109 <<A new announcement by Hamas and PLO is in offing according to highly placed sources in Middle East. Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Organization's central Fatah faction, and 11 other Palestinian groups weighed a draft document that could spell a cessation of terror attacks in Israeli cities. Hamas and Fatah might find common ground in reversing what he called a slide in the furtherance of the cause of eventual Palestinian statehood.>> The latest news that help this view further.. Implementation of the "Gaza First" security plan, which involves a phased Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian areas, is to start in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank town of Bethlehem "within 48 hours," a senior aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Monday. "There was an agreement at the meeting that the Gaza First plan would begin in Gaza and Bethlehem within 48 hours," Nabil Abu Rudeina told. His comments came in the wake of a meeting Sunday night between Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer and Palestinian interior minister Abdel Razaq al-Yahya, after which Israel said it would begin implementing the security plan on Monday. "The delegations agreed there would be meetings between local security leaders (on both sides) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to continue implementing these steps and to move them into other Palestinian cities," he said. Further steps in the implementation of the plan would be taken in the next few days, Abu Rudeina added.