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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44649)	9/21/2003 4:51:15 AM
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Report Hussein negotiating with US-British tabloid September 21, 2003 - 11:07AM Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, a British tabloid newspaper said today. According to the Sunday Mirror report, Saddam was demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus in exchange for information on weapons of mass destruction and his bank accounts. US President George W Bush was being kept up to date on the talks by his national security adviser Condoleeza Rice who was coordinating negotiations led by US general Ricardo Sanchez, the Sunday Mirror said. Sanchez is the commander of US forces in Iraq. "A representative of Saddam in Western-style civilian clothes came to coalition people at Tikrit at sunset on September 12. He led them to a house where the security official was waiting," the Sunday Mirror quoted a senior Iraqi as saying. "The discussions are now going on under the direct authority of General Sanchez," the source said, according to the newspaper. The source maintained that Saddam had decided to seek a deal "because he is desperate, trapped and finding fewer and fewer people willing to give him shelter," the tabloid said. - AFP

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44649)	9/21/2003 6:38:24 PM
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Privatization of everything except natural resources comes to be the new economic reality: DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S.-controlled Iraq Sunday unveiled sweeping reforms allowing foreign investors into all sectors except oil, ending 30 years of state economic control...Iraqi Finance Minister Kamel al-Keylani said Sunday the reforms would 'significantly advance efforts to build a free and open market economy in Iraq,' spur economic growth and speed Iraq's re-entry into the international community...The list of reforms for liberalizing foreign investment, the banking sector and taxes and tariffs read like a recipe devised by Washington for a capitalist Iraq...'Iraq needs jobs, it needs to have growth,' a senior U.S. official involved in Iraq's reconstruction said... The surprisingly broad measures, which end an era of economic domination under Saddam Hussein and the socialist Baath Party, were aimed at improving global opinion before a donors' conference in Madrid next month... "The fact that they ban investment in oil resources is good because it sends the message that America was not only after Iraq's oil," an Arab finance minister who declined to be identified said of the steps. Link posted by Steve Antler : 7:34 AM