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To: jcky who wrote (42721)	9/9/2002 12:07:01 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

If there were credible information linking Iraq to al-Qaida, this evidence will have been shared during the closed door consultations with some of our high ranking critical members of our allies and some of the overt criticisms from many of our traditional allies would have been tempered. We'll just have to see.. IF the US has such a highly placed agent in Saddam's government, there's simply no way we would compromise that source by revealing such intelligence with any other nation's leader (except Tony Blair due to the close inter-relationship that already exists). Just too much chance of having the source compromised.. I would want that source pulled out first and safeguarded before permitting the information to be revealed. But of course, there are many cases where political leaders have blown an agents cover without extracting them first. Hawk