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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (96729)	4/28/2003 9:35:08 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Yes we are in perfect agreement. I speak (or at least try to :) 5 languages. In some of them I can even pass as a native speaker because I have talent for accents. Even so, crossing between fundamentally different languages is not easy. The difference between Persian and Arabic is a lot greater than say English and French or even French and Russian. > But if one want's to organize and stir up trouble...What is necessary is a population that will be receptive to their "talking points" and spin. Absolutely. However, in a large society such as Iraq's, you don't need agents for this. If the population is already receptive to the message, somebody among the natives is bond to speak it. What I am saying is that I am sure there are Iranian agents in Iraq. But they nothing like the "thousands" which is being "widely reported". Nor do they particularly need to be stirring up trouble. There is enough local Iraqis for that. The whole thing is a scare tactic to prevent Iran from letting Iraqi citizens unfavorable to US to cross over. This is not going to happen. Nor is it particularly right for Iran to do so. I was really pissed off by the so called expert statement which tied everything from AQ and Saddam to Khoi's murder to orders from Tehran by Iranian agents. And not a single person called him up on such outright lie.