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To: DMaA who wrote (15720)	11/9/2003 4:28:02 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793652

"Round up the usual suspects." U.S. Detains 18 for Attack That Came Close to Wolfowitz By SUSAN SACHS New York Times BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov. 9 — American forces have detained 18 people in connection with a rocket attack earlier this month on the hotel where Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz stayed when he visited the country, a military spokesman said today. The First Armored Division, which is responsible for security in and around Baghdad, made the arrests, said the spokesman, Lt. Col. George C. Krivo, who declined to provide further details. The early morning attack on the Rashid Hotel in central Baghdad two weeks ago killed one American serviceman and injured 18 others. Mr. Wolfowitz, who was in Iraq on a brief mission to highlight what he called the positive aspects of the American-led occupation, escaped injury. Since that episode, assaults on American and other foreign forces in Iraq have increased, with 34 reported in the latest 24-hour period, officials said nytimes.com

To: DMaA who wrote (15720)	11/9/2003 4:51:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793652

Blame it on Cheney! "Newsweek" Cover Story. ___________________________________________ Cheney’s Long Path to War The Hard Sell: He sifted intel. He brooded about threats. And he wanted Saddam gone. The inside story of how Vice President Cheney brought into shady assumptions and helped persuade a nation to invade Iraq Nov. 17 issue — Every Thursday, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have lunch together in a small dining room off the Oval Office. They eat alone; no aides are present. They have no fixed agenda, but it’s a safe assumption that they often talk about intelligence—about what the United States knows, or doesn’t know, about the terrorist threat. .....Accused of overstating the Iraqi threat by politicians and pundits, Cheney is publicly and privately unrepentant. He believes that Al Qaeda is determined to obtain weapons of mass destruction and use them against American civilians in their cities and homes. To ignore those warnings would be “irresponsible in the extreme,” he says in his speeches. His staffers are not unmindful of the risk of crying wolf, however, and acknowledge that if weapons of mass destruction are never found in Iraq, the public will be much less likely to back pre-emptive wars in the future. Cheney still believes the WMD will turn up somewhere in Iraq—if they aren’t first used against us by terrorists. REST AT: msnbc.com