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To: carranza2 who wrote (56261)	11/8/2002 3:50:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hide and seek, would be my guess. Buys time. Mine too, since it worked before. But it's likely that Saddam thinks he has some cards up his sleeve in the event of a confrontation: the strength of the Iraqi army and the Republican Guard (which he is bound to overestimate, having been fed bad information by terrified underlings for years), his belief that Americans can't take casualties, and his willingness to display the suffering of ordinary Iraqis as a moral trump card. That last one has worked great in recent years. Probably depends if Saddam is in a grandiose mood or a funk.