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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (89820)	4/4/2003 12:19:52 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

That's just what happened in 1963, through a coup in which the CIA reportedly provided information to army officers involved in the takeover. This kind of de facto alliance is a long, long way from saying that the CIA "installed" the Ba'ath regime. The CIA didn't kill King Feisal, nor institute the series of coups that followed. To buy into "the CIA did it all" theories is just another method of buying into Arab victimology. The CIA may fish in troubled waters, but it isn't that powerful or effective. Nor does it answer the question of how the US is supposed to be responsible for all the other Arab regimes.