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To: Dan B. who wrote (454286)	9/7/2003 10:08:35 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

great progress in Afghanistan and Iraq? NO!

To: Dan B. who wrote (454286)	9/7/2003 10:16:05 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"There has been great progress in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere" I don't know whatever you could be possibly talking about. I suppose the current situation is what happens when you let someone with a room temperature IQ run things. Whtever you say about Clinton - he was a Rode's Scholar.

To: Dan B. who wrote (454286)	9/7/2003 10:18:20 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If progress is UN headquarters being blown up, an embassy being blown up, mosques being blown up, hundreds of people blown up as a result, a bombing at a Baghdad police headquarters, more US troops killed since the carrier charade, local militias that do not particularly like the US presence springing up, IMF personnel pulled out of Iraq, civil war imminent on several levels, zero security in Afghanistan beyond a part of Kabul, opium production in high gear, just to name a few events, then your definition of progress needs self-review.

To: Dan B. who wrote (454286)	9/7/2003 10:20:54 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In an ominous sign of the American occupation's inability to stop the spate of bombings in Iraq, a car bomb went off yesterday in the Iraqi police's headquarters near American soldiers guarding a building next door. At least 15 people were injured in the bombing, and there were unconfirmed reports that one Iraqi police officer was killed. The car packed with explosives would have to have passed right under heavily sandbagged American positions on the wall of the building next door to enter the police academy and headquarters car park. The attack, on the headquarters of an Iraqi police force now loyal to the Americans, sent a stark message: the bombers can strike where they like, even at the offices of the very police who are supposed to prevent the bombings, and even under the guns of the Americans. The bomb exploded close to the office of Baghdad's police chief, Hassan al-Obeidi. The attack may also have been aimed at Bernard Kerik, the former New York police chief who has been put in charge of retraining the Iraqi police. Witnesses described a loud explosion at about 11am, followed by huge clouds of black smoke rising over the police headquarters. One man describe seeing a severed hand lying on the ground. A police officer who tried to report for duty at the building after the bombing and was turned back said several cars had been damaged by the explosion. The attack comes after the bombing of the United Nations building in Baghdad, and the car bomb massacre in Najaf last week in which at least 125 people died, including a senior Iraqi Shia cleric. In the context of those attacks, the injury toll yesterday was slight - but it was a clear indication that the bombings will continue and that nowhere is safe.