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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (93758)	4/15/2003 10:46:51 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

These discoveries led the Bush administration to slap down before Damascus a three-part ultimatum: 1. First, in view of Syria’s long record as sponsor of terror, the Assad regime is required to dismantle at once the command centers of the Lebanese Hizballah and the Palestinian Jihad Islami and Hamas Damascus headquarters and turn their leaders over to the United States. A list of names is supplied. 2. To hand over without delay all the weapons of mass destruction on its territory, whether they are “Iraqi” or “Syrian”. 3. To surrender to the Americans at once every one of the hundreds of Iraqi regime members, including Saddam kinsmen, granted asylum in Syria. Amazing if true. Do we have any other sources reporting these demands? --fl

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (93758)	4/15/2003 10:54:31 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq’s UN ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, the first Saddam regime official to concede his country’s defeat (“The game is over”), aroused some sympathy when he burst into tears in New York and vowed to devote his life to a peaceful future for his people. He announced he would be going to Paris. Well, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources have discovered that the weeping ambassador stayed in Paris only long enough to catch the next plane to Damascus, where he joined his not exactly peace-loving brother, who turns out to be the deposed vice president Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri. FWIW...I saw the interview with him as he was getting into a limo heading for the airport. He said clearly that he was heading to find his family and check on their wellbeing since he had no contact with them in the last while. I clearly got the impression that he was saying he was going wherevever necessary. This Debka account does not quite seem to reconcile with what I saw and heard.