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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (41173)	9/1/2002 7:40:05 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

Jochen, that's not surprising since Atta and co seem to have been especially keen on Germany as a good, safe base for operations. Germany is a transit country. If you go for a ride with the Berlin subway you have the chance to hear one to two dozen languages, German being the minority. There are streets with only cyrillic signs, others with Turkish or Arabic signs. If you are in the center of south-north, east-west traffic it's a different situation than if you live at the dead end of nowhere surrounded by millions of square miles of water. Germany seems keen to leave the Arab analogue of Hitler in charge in Iraq No. What should be the interest of Germany having SH in power? There's none. Business is much more profitable with democratic countries. If you quote any deals of German companies with Iraq I could reply that, for instance, Israel companies do military business with Iran or China, too. That's human nature, you'll always find individuals violating official policy. #reply-17929809 Concerns in U.S. About Israel-China Arms Deals story.news.yahoo.com that's [SH's] purpose in life = to live a grand life of confrontation and victory if possible and glorious defeat if unlucky. I'd agree with the former and disagree with the latter. SH enjoys provocation but at the same time he avoids total confrontation and is afraid of defeat. That's the difference to Hitler. SH is a cruel butcher, yes, but he knows his forces are inferior to the IDF alone (not to speak of their combination with US and British forces), so he doesn't attack. Hitler was told by his generals that a second front against Stalin would be an overextension, yet he launched operation Barbarossa. Best to pull the plug now. As I've written before: if there's a real case to be made against SH make it at the UN Security Council. It was no problem to assemble a coalition for the 1991 war. So play it again, Sam.