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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (65303)	1/10/2003 3:26:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

debka's headlines Israel Shin Beit and Police Counter-Terror Unit detain top command of Palestinian Popular Front preparing to assassinate Jerusalem Mayor and launch large-scale suicide attack at Jerusalem bus terminus Detentions since Thursday in Ramallah and Bituniya netted also senior Syrian commander from Popular Front’s Damascus HQ Yashak Amin. He was picked up in Ramallah safe house with Hassan Satafta, head of Popular Front military wing Satafta received operational orders from Front leader Saadat, ostensibly jailed in Jericho under British and American custody for murder of Israeli cabinet minister DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Maritime and Counter-Terror Sources: Greek navy is chasing Syrian-flagged freighter Antradous I in Aegean Sea suspected of carrying illegal immigrants or illicit cargo, drugs and weapons Greece alerted sea and air forces when ship refused coast guard inspection and fled to international waters – first such refusal by Mediterranean-flagged vessel, according to Greek Shipping minister Anomeritis Syrian authorities have not granted permission to intercept suspect vessel, currently sailing between south Peloponnesus and Crete

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (65303)	1/10/2003 3:42:13 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

you have left out Bush's own decisions. I have to confess that I still have no real sense of just what to think about the role Bush is playing in his administration's foreign policy. He clearly has absolute authority, little knowledge of the world, and strong feelings about it. 9/11 turbocharged the first and third. He also clearly seems to think he's in full control and operating from the highest of motives. Whether those latter two judgments are correct is very hard to say from the outside, since there are some very smart, very powerful people jockeying for position underneath him and manipulating both of those features to further their own agendas. Anyway, given all this I am not comfortable offering strong opinions about what impact he himself has had on things. tb@curiouslymodest.com