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To: Ilaine who wrote (45534)	9/20/2002 10:45:13 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Or maybe it won't happen because we don't actually have any information. The "Prague meeting" story has been floated and discounted so many times I lose count. Last authoritative word on nukes was Saddam had tried to import some aluminum tubing that might have been used to build gas centrifuges that might have given him enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb 5-7 years from now. There's lots of scaremongering on biological weapons these days; given the less than stellar response to the (probably domestically sourced) anthrax thing last fall, it might be good to worry about the same people running things if something like that happened again. But again, there's no evidence of any particular threat from Saddam there. As to sources and stuff, that is not entirely consistent with Ashcroft's showboating on Padilla and the Buffalo guys. If there was real interest in sources and intelligence, they would have been in place and monitored for further contacts, not pulled in with massive accompanying publicity campaigns. There was a lot of talk about Stevenson before the 9/12 address, but it turned out the marketing plan went in a different direction. You're probably right about it not happening, but I somewhat doubt your assertion of why.