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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (333873)	12/26/2002 4:40:09 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I do not have to gin up anything, Sheddam. Just showing you for the whippedsissyboy you are. You are content to sit here and think that Saddam, your bro, is no danger and that we should leave him alone. Wonder if you would feel the same if he killed your family? He has been involved in financing killings all over the world, you can believe that. Check out this article from 1996 ___________________________________________________ The Electronic Telegraph Sunday, 15 September 1996 Issue 480 "Fears grow of germ warfare in US" By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington SADDAM Hussein has a stock of anthrax, botulin and other agents of germ warfare that could be released with deadly effect in any major city in Britain or the United States, experts warned this week. Whatever the assurances of the British and US governments, there is a danger that there could be a high price to pay for the West's arm's-length cruise missile war against the Ba'athist regime in Baghdad. "You could spray biological agents from crop dusters, you could even drive around Washington with the stuff coming out of the exhaust of a car and it would kill tens of thousands of people," said Dr Laurie Mylroie, a former lecturer at the US Naval War College and now a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia. The full extent of Iraq's germ warfare capability was revealed after the defection of Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamil, in August 1995. He had been the head of Iraq's "unconventional weapons" programme. Iraq has since defied the United Nations Special Commission by refusing to hand over any of its biological weapons. The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, has warned that Saddam Hussein has enough anthrax to "kill every man, woman and child in the world". But up to now the administration of Bill Clinton has played down the possibility that Saddam would ever use germ warfare in terrorist attacks against targets on US soil. The loudest cries of alarm have been coming from outside the government. A small but growing group of experts in Washington has begun to suspect that Iraq could be the real force behind the wave of terrorist attacks that has traumatised America in the 1990s. The experts also warn there is a real danger that Saddam could escalate to biological terrorism. According to Dr Mylroie, the attempt to blow up the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York on February 26, 1993 - which killed six people, but could have claimed thousands of lives if the truck bomb had been parked in the intended spot - was an act of Iraqi state-sponsored terrorism conducted by proxies. After studying the telephone records and document archive from the trial, she has concluded that the mastermind said to be behind the bombing, a shadowy figure called Ramsi Yousef, was working for Iraqi intelligence. The Justice Department did not address this issue in the official investigation. It concluded that the bombing was the work of Islamic fundamentalists loyal to a blind Egyptian cleric. Jim Fox, then head of the New York FBI office, suspected Iraqi involvement but says that the Washington headquarters refused to look at the evidence. Increasingly, the question being asked in Washington every time a bomb goes off is which of the pariah states is guilty -Iran or Iraq? Ramsi Yousef was recently convicted for plotting to blow up 12 US jumbo jets in a single day in the Far East. He now faces life in prison in the US. But it is still unclear whether he was a loner or a paid agent. The presumption that he was a religious militant does not bear scrutiny. Yousef had a Filipina girlfriend and was known to frequent nightclubs when he was living in Manila. It is also inconceivable that he was working for the Shi'ite regime in Iran. Yousef is a Pakistani Baluch of Sunni background, an anti-Iranian ethnic group that is frequently used by the Iraqi intelligence services for covert operations. Separately, there is some suspicion that Iraq could have had a hand in the bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The defence team of the leading suspect, Timothy McVeigh, has been travelling extensively in the Middle East and the Philippines. It claims to have accumulated evidence of Iraqi funding for the white supremacist movement in the US. "I've never seen any evidence of Iraqi involvement in Oklahoma," said Vincent Cannistraro, the ex-chief of counter-terrorism operations for the CIA. "But there are indications that the Iraqis had a hand in the World Trade Centre bombing." Last month the FBI announced that it was transferring 500 agents to beef up its counter-terrorism capability. The move came just weeks after the crash of TWA flight 800 off New York on July 17 - widely believed to be the result of a bomb. It suggests that the Clinton administration is at last beginning to treat terrorist attacks as potential acts of warfare, carried out by enemy powers, that must be traced to their source, rather than as criminal acts that can be left to prosecutors. Increasingly, the question being asked in Washington every time a bomb goes off is which of the pariah states is guilty - Iran or Iraq? And when will it strike next?