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To: carranza2 who wrote (97488)5/5/2003 3:58:41 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Polish President: Bush Might Visit Poland

Sunday, May 04, 2003

Bush should do this.

WARSAW, Poland ? President Bush is considering a stopover in the Polish city of Krakow en route to Russia this month to thank Poles for participating in the Iraq war, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski (search) said Sunday.

Bush administration officials said the trip was in the works, but declined to provide details. Kwasniewski said Bush might visit on May 30. It would be his second trip to Poland.

Poland (search), among Washington's strongest European supporters in toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (search ), is preparing to take command of one of Iraq's three postwar zones. The United States and Britain would control the other zones.

The stabilization plan excludes France and Germany, America's harshest critics of the Iraq war who were angered at Poland -- their future EU ally -- for its support of Washington.

Poland, set to join the EU next year, sent about 200 troops to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Under the stabilization plan, Poland is expected to take command of the northern part of Iraq, where it would supervise military and humanitarian relief. Ukrainian, Slovak and Romanian forces would likely participate under Polish command, the president said.

Poland's defense and foreign ministers were to hold talks in Washington on Monday and Tuesday to determine how many troops Warsaw will send to Iraq and how the deployment will be financed. Poland has said it cannot pay for the mission or send more than 2,000 troops.
foxnews.com



To: carranza2 who wrote (97488)5/6/2003 12:41:06 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Respond to of 281500
 
...The Opium enjoyed rapidly increasing popularity in USA and during the prohibition in the thirties and twenties, there existed already mafia-like opium businesses in Mexico. Probably the most important protection patron at that time was the general Rodrigo Quevedo, the governor of Chihuahua, who for each shipment, which left his Federal State for USA, cashed in stately sums in return for his protection. It looked similar in other border states....