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To: tejek who wrote (150475)	8/27/2002 2:37:49 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1584891

Not according to the generally accepted definition of "terrorist". He uses terror, but I wouldn't call him a terrorist. Tim

To: tejek who wrote (150475)	8/27/2002 3:06:05 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584891

Tim, fine. But I still want to know if you think Sodom is a terrorist. Let me answer this; as I take issue with Tim. Yes. -Iraq, during the Gulf War, repeatedly lobbed Scud missles into Israel, not even a party to the conflict, during the Gulf War, in what can only be referred to as acts of terrorism. -Iraq has supported such international terrorist groups as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, Abu Nidal Organization, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). During the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam commissioned several failed terrorist attacks on U.S. interests, and in 1993, Iraqi intelligence agents tried to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush and the emir of Kuwait. -In recent years, Saddam has tended to back terrorist groups that oppose his regional adversaries—including the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq group of dissidents fighting Iran, Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey, and, since the Palestinian uprising began in 2000, Hamas and other Palestinian groups attacking Israel. -Saddam channels money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, and an April 2002 Iraqi fatwa, or religious ruling, said, “Muslim clerics in Iraq bless these suicidal attacks.” Iraq is also reported to host training camps for terrorists. -Iraq had an extensive chemical weapons program in the 1980s, producing such deadly toxins as sarin, VX, tabun, and mustard gas, and U.N. weapons inspectors and Western governments are sure that Iraq has held on to at least some of those weapons. “He has huge amounts of deadly substances that can kill almost unimaginable numbers of people,” said then--British Defense Secretary George Robertson in 1998, back when the Iraqi arsenal was still under some U.N. supervision. (Chemical weapons are, for all intents and purposes, weapons of terror and have no legitimate reason for existence other than for inflicting terror). THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS A RESOUNDING, INDISPUTABLE, UNQUESTIONNABLE "YES".