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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53743)	10/21/2002 6:27:02 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

After all the hoopla about the Tenet letter to Congress, I hadn't read it but just did. Has anybody mentioned the following? >>Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability. Some of the information we have received comes from detainees, including some of high rank. We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa'ida going back a decade. Credible information indicates that Iraq and al-Qa'ida have discussed safe haven and reciprocal nonaggression. Since Operation Enduring Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al-Qa'ida members, including some that have been in Baghdad. We have credible reporting that al-Qa'ida leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire W.M.D. capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to al-Qa'ida members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs. Iraq's increasing support to extremist Palestinians coupled with growing indications of a relationship with al-Qa'ida, suggest that Baghdad's links to terrorists will increase, even absent U.S. military action.<< globalsecurity.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53743)	10/21/2002 6:28:03 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Most people can tell the difference between accidents and deliberate bombings. If you can't, too bad." So it's your position that the Palestinians were after the soldiers on the bus today, and that the civilians that were killed were the result of Israel using its civilians as human shields for its soldiers? -- Carl P.S. Spare me the morality, just give me a date by which the conservatives will have solved the suicide bombing problem.