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To: LindyBill who wrote (62349)	12/19/2002 6:35:48 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>US fears Saddam will raze Iraq From Tim Reid in Washington, Philip Webster and David Charter THE Bush Administration has “solid evidence” that Saddam Hussein will unleash a “scorched earth” policy if he faces removal from power, including the blowing up of oil wells, power plants and food storage facilities. The Pentagon also has firm evidence that the Iraqi President has decided to launch chemical and biological attacks on US troops, Iraq’s Shia and Kurd minorities and the people of Kuwait if he faces defeat, intelligence officials told The Times yesterday. The Pentagon has a clear interest in vilifying Saddam, and there is no way to corroborate its claims, but one official insisted: “We get our evidence from defectors, overhead images and communications intercepts. When we call it solid, we have a combination of all those things. “We have solid evidence that Saddam plans to blow up his oil wells and blame it on the US. He will also use his weapons of mass destruction when his regime is threatened and when he has absolutely nothing to lose. We have very good intelligence supporting this.” The officials said that Saddam had ordered his military chiefs to set alight and destroy oil wells in the northern region of Kirkuk and the southern city of Basra if the Iraqi Army starts to disintegrate. He hopes that the ensuing conflagration would cause huge smoke clouds that would hamper American bombers. << More at: timesonline.co.uk