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To: NickSE who wrote (372)	3/7/2003 10:56:02 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 504

The hunt for Iraqi ‘sleeper cells’ msnbc.com WASHINGTON, March 6 — The FBI is conducting an intensive hunt for potential “sleeper cells” of Iraqi agents planted to strike in the event of war after two attachés at Iraq’s U.N. mission in New York were caught filming bridges and tunnels, U.S. officials told NBC News. At least 70 Iraqi nationals are under active surveillance, law enforcement officials said, and agents have spread out to interview thousands of Iraqi men in an attempt to track down hundreds who came to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War and disappeared. [cont'd......]

To: NickSE who wrote (372)	3/7/2003 11:05:06 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 504

Keeping Cool on Korea Democrats play into Kim Jong Il's hands. Bush should ignore them. opinionjournal.com The story of late on North Korea has been that President Bush is keeping his head while everyone else seems to be losing theirs. The same people who don't want the U.S. to disarm Saddam Hussein are demanding that Mr. Bush drop everything and disarm Kim Jong Il--right now, if not faster. A lot of this, probably most of it, can be dismissed as partisan politics. Having lost the Congressional vote and public debate on Iraq, some Democrats figure that North Korea is their opening to assail Mr. Bush's foreign policy. Thus we have the spectacle of Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd, who worry not at all about Saddam getting nuclear weapons, now thundering that North Korea is the "more immediate threat." These are doves wearing press-on hawk talons for the TV cameras. [cont'd......]