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To: Skywatcher who wrote (438714)	8/6/2003 2:59:56 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Chris, This is important: country-liberal-party.com For me this was a connecting the dots moment. I'm currently reading about the vicious Richard Secord in his first ascendancy to the seventh level of Hell in Al McCoy's "The Politics of Heroin": amazon.com Secord is back. He's running the Bush Family's heroin operations in Afghanistan. They're all back. Otto Bosch, the Mena boys, Ollie North. They are like a cancer on America. We can't seem to irradiate these dirty bastards.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (438714)	8/6/2003 8:59:04 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Basra Refinery back on stream Basra, Iraq Press, August 4, 2003 – Basra Refinery, the second largest oil refining complex in Iraq, is running almost at full capacity as life returns to normal in this southern city of 1.5 million people. "Putting the refinery to work is a landmark in the post-Saddam reconstruction,"declared Iraq's most influential newspaper, Azzaman. The London-based Arabic daily Azzaman publishes a special edition in the city and another in Baghdad. With up to 60,000 copies distributed a day, it is currently the country's largest daily. The refinery, with a capacity of 120,000 barrels a day, was designed to meet needs of southern Iraqi provinces and also churn out byproducts for export. Much of the oil infrastructure in southern Iraq was looted and most of the removable equipment in the refinery was taken away. Meantime, life in Basra has almost returned to normal with the city's newly established reconstruction bureau announcing new projects to improve public utilities and services. Former employees of Iraqi Port Authority have all returned to work, including those who were sacked by the former regime of Saddam Hussein for political reasons. The city's police force is functioning almost at capacity, leading to a drastic fall in crime rate. The judicial system is working and the city's courts have put behind bars scores of criminals and thieves. The branch of the Central Bank of Iraq has resumed operations. The two state-owned commercial banks of Rafidain and al-Rasheed have reopened their offices in smaller towns and districts in the region. The head of the central bank branch in Basra Shuayb Bazzaz told Iraq Press that government-owned banks are working heard in the run up to to the introduction of the new Iraqi currency to replace the current Saddam-faced dinars. Bazzaz said he would soon start a campaign to inform residents on what they need to do when the new money is introduced on October 15. Karim Nasser of the state-owned Rafidain Bank said the bank intends to open all its branches in the city next week. "We are working hard to repair damage to our buildings throughout the region," he said. Basra, like several other cities in southern and northern parts of the country, is a success story for the U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq. Last month Basra's provisional council elected Waiel Abdulatif governor following a row between local residents and the British forces in the city over who was to fill the important post. Since then, statistics have shown that there has been a 70 percent drop in crime as the the city's police moved to put an to lawlessness and looting . ipnews