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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (63899)12/31/2002 1:50:25 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 281500
 
Strange, but true...December 2002 Harper's Magazine

Number of times George W. Bush has said Osama bin Laden's name in public since July 8 : 0

Number of names on the State Department's list of "suspected terrorists" : 70,000

Hours after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld learned Bin Laden was a suspect that he sought reasons to "hit" Iraq : 2.5

Percentage by which the Pentagon's September order for sunblock exceeded its last largest such order : 70

Rank of Israel and Turkey among nations in violation of the largest number of U.N. Security Council resolutions : 1, 2