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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62968)	12/23/2002 7:40:50 PM
From: Ed Huang	Respond to of 281500

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62968)	12/23/2002 7:42:57 PM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 281500

In Iraq, Fear and Mumbling at the Top By JOHN F. BURNS A tension has settled over every corner of the Iraqi government as the crisis over Saddam Hussein's secret weapons, or lack of them, deepens. nytimes.com To go further, and to say that power in Iraq is unraveling, would be to reach too far, since nothing yet remotely resembles a challenge to Mr. Hussein. But for a reporter who was in Baghdad exactly 12 years ago, on the eve of the gulf war, the contrasts are unavoidable, beginning with the Iraqi leader's stubborn but at least comprehensible pronouncements then, and his perplexing performances now.