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To: LindyBill who wrote (97336)	5/3/2003 6:58:41 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The War, Up Close and Very Personal [*] An embedded reporter has an exhilarating, if terrifying, window on the unscripted world of men in combat. In ways, he was one of them. Now that the war is over, we are going to get some great stories from the imbeds. Here is one of them. latimes.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (97336)	5/3/2003 10:54:40 AM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 281500

Robin Wright says Powell is going to take Assad to the Woodshed. Or is he? The short answer is - yes! Powell to Syria: Cooperate with U.S. peace plans Demands end of support to anti-Israeli militants msnbc.com ....“We raised serious issues in a very direct manner,” said a senior State Department official travelling with Powell of the meetings with the Syrians, which lasted over two hours. “Whether relations improve or deteriorate at this point really depends on their performance...What matters is what they do. That’s what we will be following,” the official said.

To: LindyBill who wrote (97336)	5/4/2003 12:16:10 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

Seems like he may have, or at least the threat of taking him for a spanking got some action. Assad supposedly is ordering the offices of the "political arms" of terror groups in Damascus to close... foxnews.com "They did closures. I expect them to do more, with respect to access and appearances of various officials in those organizations," Powell said. "We provided some other suggestions to the Syrians that they are going to take in advisement. I expect to hear back." A senior State Department official who attended the meeting said Powell explained to Assad that the U.S. failed to understand why those groups, their leaders and their presence were seen "as of any benefit to Syria any longer" in a post-Saddam Mideast. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Powell mentioned three groups in particular — Hamas (search), the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command — and quoted Powell as saying the United States will watch closely to determine whether the offices are indeed closed.

To: LindyBill who wrote (97336)	5/4/2003 11:04:57 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"I will always have that lying in my background software and on my hard drive," he told reporters. For an ex-militry type, Powell certainly has a brilliant way with words. Allow me to deconstruct. The two obvious meanings were the implicit reference to the lie he was told by Assad when he promised an end to the Iraqi oil shipments to Syria. The second one is the fact that he has stored the lie in his hard-drive and background software so that it lies embedded in these systems. The more veiled meaning--and scarier one to Assad, if he even gets it--is the use of high-tech terms to deliver a diplomatic message. It may have been designed to remind Assad of the technological wizardy that played such an important part in Saddam's swift demise. The marrying of diplomacy and high tech should make Assads's threat antennae twitch mightily. Will he get it? C2@pearlsbeforeswine.com