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To: thames_sider who wrote (99959)	6/3/2003 9:30:58 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You are right. We found no terrorist leaders under Saddam's control, other than some old long retired relics, whose stay in Iraq was well known and not an issue before the war. Given the lack of real terrorist, I guess people now want to make an issue of them retroactively.

To: thames_sider who wrote (99959)	6/3/2003 1:02:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Abu Nidal was in Iraq, but was a) out of action for decades And that's why Saddam had him "perforated", right?? Seems to me he was tying up "loose ends"... Or do you buy the story that Nidal committed multi-round suicide?? And then there's Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro ship-jacking (and murder of a crippled American citizen).. Guess you forgot about him, right??: cbsnews.com Next up may be Abdul Yasin, accused of helping make the bomb in the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. Yasin also fled to Baghdad but was greeted with suspicion and put in jail. He's even showed reporters the scars he got while mixing the bomb. Most intriguing is Ahmad Khlil Al-Ani. He worked at the now ransacked headquarters of Iraqi Intelligence. But he was once stationed in Prague. There are conflicting reports about whether he secretly met 9-11 hijacker ringleader Mohammed Atta there in April 2001. If so, what did they discuss? Also missing is Abu Zaqawi, an al Qaeda lieutenant who lost a leg fighting in Afghanistan and got treatment in Baghdad. And there's Farouk Hijazi an Iraqi ambassador tied to a 1993 assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush. Hijazi may have escaped to Syria by now. Yes.. Thomas, there are STILL some bad men that Saddam sheltered in Iraq. And like the mafia, once your a "made man", you're NEVER really "out" of the life. I don't care what they say about regrets. They know too much about everyone else and will wind up dead were they to actually attempt to "leave the family". I know, were I the leader of a terrorist cell, I would eliminate anyone I couldn't trust. The "mission" would demand it. Hawk