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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (48628)	10/1/2002 9:04:33 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

yup. although my own sense is that the WH was indeed less than obsessed with wrapping up the Khobar case, because the leads seemed to point to Iran. Having that proven would have meant trouble, because Iran was (is) caught up in an internal hardline/moderate struggle; the hardliners would have been the ones who did it, but we would have had to end up striking back at the whole country, including the moderates, which would probably have set back the prospects for rapprochement which we were trying to nurture. (I fully agreed with that position, by the way--straightforward sensible realpolitik, IMO.) tb@freehwasadoofusanyway.com