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To: Bilow who wrote (70142)	1/29/2003 11:16:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No heavy activation of the Merchant Marine? You are so full of it. >>The Maritime Administration announced on January 27 that it had activated 13 additional Ready Reserve Force ships on Friday January 24 to support Operation Enduring Freedom. This activation was in addition to 19 other ships that hava already been serving. These ships include the Cape Edmont, Cape Henry, Cape Horn, Cape Hudon, Cape Inscription, Cape Intrepid, Cape Isabel, Cape Island, Cape Orlando, Cape Ray, Cape Washington, Cape Wrath, and the Admiral Callaghan. Additional ships that have been activated recently, but have not been previously disclosed include the Cape Ducato, Cape Gibson, Cape John, and Cape Johnson. << That's just one announcement on one day. Either you haven't been paying attention or you're living in a fool's paradise. globalsecurity.org

To: Bilow who wrote (70142)	1/30/2003 12:34:14 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Four in five Europeans oppose war, says poll January 30 2003 Four out of five Europeans are opposed to participation in a US-led war on Iraq without explicit United Nations backing, according to a poll published today. According to the survey by pollsters EOS Gallup Europe, 82 per cent of European citizens would not support their countries' participating in a military intervention without UN support. This figure is 75 per cent in the 13 countries waiting to join the EU - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. A total of 15,080 people took part in the survey, conducted from January 21-27 by pan-European pollsters who often carry out similar studies for the European Commission. It also revealed that 72 per cent of Europeans believe that Iraq's oil resources are the main reason behind Washington's desire to intervene militarily. Two thirds, or 66 per cent, of those questioned across Europe agree that Iraq poses a serious threat to world peace - a figure that rises to 74 per cent in Britain, and 87 per cent in Slovakia, compared with just 43 per cent in Turkey. Just 41 per cent characterised US foreign policy as "positive," while 54 per cent thought it was "negative", the poll showed. In the 15 EU states, some 55 per cent of citizens felt there was a real threat of terrorist attack in their countries, including 83 per cent in Britain, 70 per cent in Spain, 59 per cent in both France and Italy. The figure dropped to 27 per cent in the 13 candidate countries. Across the European continent, 70 per cent of people were "rather or very pessimistic" about the world's situation, the survey showed. smh.com.au

To: Bilow who wrote (70142)	1/30/2003 9:30:34 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

Here's another article for your notebook: Military: US will announce Iraq war in 3 weeks January 30, 2003 Posted: 16:44 Moscow time (12:44 GMT) MOSCOW - A Russian news agency quoted an unidentified source in the Russian military Thursday as saying the United States would announce a decision to launch a war on Iraq within three weeks. The source said the U.S. administration will make a formal decision to conduct a military operation immediately after the U.S. military and its allies create "battle groups" in the region, which will take two or three weeks, the Interfax news agency reported. The war in Iraq could start sometime during the last 10 days of February, the agency quoted the source as saying. Interfax identified its interlocutor only as a high-level source in the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Judging by past experience, the source said, the United States will inform Russia on the eve of the military action, which will begin with a day or two of strikes from the air and sea followed by a ground invasion. According to Interfax, the source said the United States has effectively halted efforts to destroy the infrastructure of the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan in order to concentrate forces in the Persian Gulf. Some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan in nearly a year took place earlier this week. The Associated Press russiajournal.com