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To: LindyBill who wrote (49235)	10/3/2002 10:24:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Mark Steyn discusses the Democratic position(s) on the war, and is in really fine form: The sight of the Democratic Party "wrestling" (as Al put it) with its conscience over Iraq is like some old-time carney freakshow: It's strangely compelling, but you can't help feeling it's cruel to put these misfits on public display. The Administration doesn't need to "politicize" the war. They're for it. So are the American people. The Democrats have had since the liberation of Kabul 10 months ago to work out a viable position. Instead, they seem to have run the various options past the focus-groups, identified the half-dozen least popular, and plumped for all of them. nationalpost.com{A71D0F66-B359-4637-994C-39D368E91272}

To: LindyBill who wrote (49235)	10/3/2002 10:55:50 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi LindyBill; Re: "That's what you would need in Air Force People to support the Aircraft, Carl. It is a base for attacking planes, Not an Infantry Division." That's what the agreement with Qatar is. -- Carl

To: LindyBill who wrote (49235)	10/3/2002 11:42:56 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 281500

Iraq Arms Experts Probably Spied - Swede Inspector Last Updated: October 03, 2002 06:24 PM ET STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Some United Nations inspectors looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in the 1990s probably spied on behalf of their governments, a Swede who worked as an inspector said on Thursday. "There were episodes you could sense were strange. One team member made too many copies of documents. Then there were those who went to their embassies at night although they were not really allowed to do so," Ake Sellstrom told Swedish public service SVT television news. Sellstrom was employed by the U.N. weapons inspection organization UNSCOM led by American Scott Ritter, whom Baghdad repeatedly accused of spying. The inspectors were forced to leave Iraq in December 1998. A divided U.N. Security Council is currently debating whether a new team of inspectors, now called UNMOVIC and led by Swede Hans Blix, should travel to Iraq and begin a new search for Baghdad's alleged stockpiles of chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons. Sellstrom said information obtained by means of electronic surveillance of Iraqi security forces' communications had clearly fallen into wrong hands -- such as the U.S. and Israeli military -- during his time with UNSCOM. Some targets checked out by the weapons inspectors were bombed by the United States and its allies just a week later, Sellstrom said. Jean Pascal Zanders, head of chemical and biological warfare studies at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told a news conference earlier on Thursday that new Iraqi weapons inspections would be extremely difficult to carry out. "If they don't come up with something in one or two months, then the United States will say 'This shows that inspections don't work' while Iraq will say 'You see, we don't have any weapons'." "We need inspections over a large timeframe," Zanders said. SIPRI researcher John Hart said Iraq had managed to keep its biological weapons program secret for four years after the inspections began in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. Pointing out that "chemical and biological weapons leave very small footprints that cannot be picked up by satellites," Zanders said it was vital that UNMOVIC's inspectors get unfettered access to all areas in Iraq. Discrepancies between information provided by Iraq and data gathered by UNSCOM by the time the inspectors had to leave suggested Baghdad may have had more than 20,000 pieces of munitions and 1.5 tons of VX nerve gas by the end of 1998, he said. U.N. arms inspectors made clear on Thursday they would delay their initial inspections in Iraq until the U.N. Security Council completed work on a new resolution the United States and Britain have drafted. KC@SPIES-R-US.COM