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To: PROLIFE who wrote (467062)	9/29/2003 10:03:50 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton/Gore operative? What an ass you are....the guy is a career state department official.... "He had been a State Department officer in Iraq in the mid-1970s. He was ambassador to Gabon in the early 1990s. And in 1997 and 1998, he was the senior director for Africa at the National Security Council and in that capacity spent a lot of time dealing with the Niger government. Wilson was also the last acting US ambassador in Iraq before the Gulf War, a military action he supported. In that post, he helped evacuate thousands of foreigners from Kuwait, worked to get over 120 American hostages out Iraq, and sheltered about 800 Americans in the embassy compound. At the time, Novak's then-partner, Rowland Evans, wrote that Wilson displayed "the stuff of heroism." And President George H. W. Bush commended Wilson: "Your courageous leadership during this period of great danger for American interests and American citizens has my admiration and respect. I salute, too, your skillful conduct of our tense dealings with the government of Iraq....The courage and tenacity you have exhibited throughout this ordeal prove that you are the right person for the job."

To: PROLIFE who wrote (467062)	9/29/2003 10:04:03 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 769670

Al-Qaeda number two calls on Pakistanis to overthrow Musharraf Mon Sep 29, 4:54 AM ET DUBAI (AFP) - Arab satellite television stations aired a new audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called on Pakistanis to overthrow President Pervez Musharraf and on Muslims to resist the US-led "crusade." "Muslims in Pakistan must unite and cooperate to topple this traitor and install a sincere leadership that would defend Islam and Muslims," the speaker said in the tape broadcast by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya and Qatar's Al-Jazeera. "It is Musharraf who enabled America to topple the (Taliban's) Islamic emirate in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Had it not been for his tremendous help, America would not have been able to do this, nor would it have been able to kill thousands of innocents in Afghanistan," the voice purported to be Zawahiri's said. The claim was a reference to the US-led war on Afghanistan launched in October 2001, a month after the September 11 attacks on the United States, to root out bin Laden, who Washington believed was being sheltered by the Taliban. The speaker suggested that both bin Laden, whose al-Qaeda network was blamed for the suicide hijackings, and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, whose whereabouts have been unknown since the Taliban regime was ousted, were alive. The "sole crime" committed by Omar, "may God keep him," was that he "refused to bow to America's arrogance and tyranny and refused to hand over the mujahedeen to her," the voice said. "And the sole crime committed by Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may God keep him, is that he decided to exact revenge from America for the crimes it perpetrates in Palestine and all Muslim lands," the speaker said. "It is Musharraf who is seeking to recognize Israel in a bid to gain full American approval ... It is Musharraf who is seeking to send Pakistani forces to Iraq (news - web sites) so that they, rather than American soldiers, are killed and so that they kill Muslims in Iraq and enable America to control Muslim lands." He also warned Pakistani army officers and soldiers that Musharraf would "hand you over to the Hindus and flee to enjoy his secret (bank) accounts" if India attacked their country. Nor would Washington reward Musharraf for his services. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was "a living example" of what happens to "traitors," the speaker said. "He gave Israel and America all that they asked for. But despite this, they are now incarcerating him in his office (in the West Bank town of Ramallah) ... and lately decided to expel him." As to the "deals" struck by "the criminal Jew Sharon" during his recent visit to India, said the speaker in a reference to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), "they are a drop in the ocean of the American-Jewish-Indian alliance against Muslims." The speaker, who also lashed out at the "collaborator government in Kabul," urged Muslims to unite to "resist the crusader-Jewish campaign seeking to finish off Islam and Muslims" under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Neither Al-Arabiya nor Al-Jazeera said when the tape was recorded and its authenticity could not be confirmed, but the remarks were replete with references to recent events such as Sharon's September 8-10 visit to India and developments in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. The outburst against Musharraf were strikingly similar to attacks on the Pakistani leader in another audiotape attributed to Zawahiri by Al-Jazeera on the eve of the second anniversary of 9/11. At the time, the Doha-based satellite channel also broadcast a videotape showing bin Laden and Zawahiri in an "undetermined mountain area" and said it had probably been recorded toward the end of April or in early May. The voice on Sunday's tape also charged that the United States had withheld publication of part of a congressional report on the September 11, 2001 attacks because it proposed "prohibiting" Saudi Arabia from printing and distributing copies of the Koran (the Muslim holy book) on grounds that it features attacks on Jews and Christians. "The part whose release was banned by the US government contained a recommendation to prohibit the Saudi government from printing and distributing the holy Koran. Why? Because it contains verses that call for hatred of Jews and Christians," it said.