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To: mt_mike who wrote (18601)	5/1/2003 5:38:46 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 89467

just finished conversation with my Pakistani Ahmad at work of course, I started off with my usual nonsense I call him "Sultan" and requested that job giving his harem women their daily baths we laughed, then got serious we agreed that the USForces exited Prince Sultan Airfield in Saudi Arabia, in order to eliminate the extreme stress put on the Saudi Royal Family... Islamic fundamentalists have been incensed that infidels have disgraced their holy land soil, and military soldiers to boot... I said I thought the Iraq Invasion was motivated by finding an alternative to Prince Sultan Airfield, and he agreed fully... we also agreed that US Media spin yesterday on the military departure from PSA after 12 years was totally skimmed over, when it had huge stress and meaning then we talked about his prediction on Syria coming to pass, where they are getting attention and pressure to give up their Baath escapees... they also have been pressured to end support for terrorist groups who are entrenched, like HezBollah... plenty of accusations that Saddam's WMD are hidden in Syria after midnight transports there secretly the funny part to me is that HezBollah is probably running their puppet president Bashar Assad, not the other way around... if Assad put pressure on HezBollah, they would kill him quickly and easily.. that is probably why US will pressure him to yield, but will force him to break... to do so would lead to his assassination then we talked about his other prediction on Iran coming to pass, where they are getting attention and pressure to quit influencing Iraq's Shiite population... already the Shiites are demonstrating in scarey numbers with chants for the US Occupation Forces to GO HOME... we fought to install Iraqi Democracy, but will likely get another Islamic Republic... Ahmad said Iran will be a bigger problem than Syria... Syria is hiding people and weapons, but Iran is influencing the new structure of govt to come... and over 60% of Iraq is comprised of Shiites funny, if you exclude the minority Kurds in the north, Shiites make up about 70-75% of the remaining Iraqi population... these guys are gonna run the political show in parliament, and they will be primarily mullahs... a fact lost on goomba Americans is that Iraq totally lacks any institutions outside the Islamic mosque... so when a democracy is created, its only institution will be required to step forward and provide leadership... the USA has about 10-15 major institutions, whereas Iraq only one -- ISLAM I asked what he thought would happen next he said they will not pressure or attack Egypt, too populous, too volatile, too much the center of Arabic culture... it is also the home of Islamic Jihad, which was responsible for the Israeli bombing yesterday... many believe the bombing was a Palestinian response... it was not... it was a major statement about the Roadmap Peace Process from the Islamic Jihad, based in Cairo and Damascus... the temperature is rising, and Palestine issues are the lightning rod he said "whatever direction US Forces go into next will determine the entire game plan... if they go into Syria, then we are after justice and punishment with trials, and will go into Lebanon next... our motive will be clear to eradictate HezBollah and Islamic Jihad groups... if they go into Iran, even partially, to get escaped AlQaeda boys, then they will pick a fight which will end up toppling Iran's Islamic govt of unpopular mullahs... and if we go into Iran with full force, our motive will be clear to establish eventually parliamentary govt in Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia eventually (entire Persian Gulf large oil exporters)... and the next country after Iran would be his home country Pakistan, which has been a thorn in the US side for over a year now... they have been hiding Al Qaeda members, and they possess a nuclear bomb that the US does not want in the hands of Islamics" next time I will discuss with more focus Saudi Arabia last time he reminded me that King Faisal is running the show... not King Fahd, who is in a Swiss hospital at death's door... Faisal is far more aligned with Islamic radicals Ahmad believes a regime change has happened quietly in Saudi without the US public even being aware of course, American public is illiterate in all things cultural, international, and financial they care more about wrestling, rap, and nintendo I would bet 10:1 odds that over 80% of Americans could not identify either VietNam nor Syria on a map the percentage among those driving an SUV might drop to 60% / jim