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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (109775)	8/4/2003 1:38:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

The reports merely stated they were in Iraq,and therefore fooled the American public into thinking they were sponsored by Saddam. We are all familiar with the media's sins of omission...it is yours I am concerned with. You said that because Ansar was in non-Saddam controlled Northern Iraq, they were therefore on Kurdish controlled land. This is just as wrong. Ansar was at war with the Kurds, and while Kurdish intelligence regarding ties to Iraqi intelligence might be self-interested, nothing, nothing, could be more plausible. Saddam was not at all reconciled to an autonomous Kurdistan, and fought, massed troops, and worked against it in many ways over the years. That he should seek to strenthen Ansar is so likely as to almost be a forgone conclusion. This is the Middle East, and my enemy's enemy is my friend.