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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (100149)	6/4/2003 6:09:17 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

And Italy, who's ship was hijacked, didn't sign it either.. They want him. They have a conviction in absentia, if I remember correctly. Ship 'im. Derek

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (100149)	6/4/2003 6:19:00 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

But you do see how our position is weak here? these people haven't been active terrorists for decades, and we have been cosying up to Saddam more recently than that - nor were we screaming for their handover more recently - so it's not a valid pretext for war, nor any dramatic revelation of something unknown. It's not an excuse we can use to suddenly demonise Saddam, not when we knew it and were still friends with him. And there's no AQ connection. (Bar one possible Taliban figure who returned to Iraq after losing a leg... we've got more confirmed British Taliban than that...) As to Abbas, the US witnessed and brokered it, so presumably accepted it? And Israel accepted it.