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To: tsigprofit who wrote (16454)	12/16/2003 9:31:21 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 48461

We used to be friends and allies with Stalin, but that relationship ended. To the disappointment of the lefties here.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (16454)	12/16/2003 3:26:51 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

Hmm, better read this info, interesting> EXCERPT: Dr. David Kay, senior US and coalition WMD hunter in Iraq - far from groping in the dark for Saddam’s prohibited weapons, as conventionally believed – have a very good idea of where they are hidden. The search has narrowed down to a section of the Syrian Desert known as Dayr Az-Zawr in Syria’s 600 sq. mile Al Jazirah province, which is wedged between the Turkish and Iraqi borders. The missing weapons systems are thought to be buried somewhere under these desert sands. This area is now probably the most keenly watched area on earth – from its outer periphery. At its eastern edge, US special force units, Predator drones and reconnaissance airplanes and satellites make sure no one steps into this ultra-sensitive patch of desert. Turkish special forces, intelligence and air force units are guarding it from the northwest. The Syrians are nowhere to be seen, acting as though the target-area does not concern them. But short of tearing up hundreds of miles of sand, the American hunters have reached an impasse in their searches. What can Saddam Hussein contribute to breaking the standoff? If the ex-dictator continues to prevaricate instead of giving straight answers to questions, the US president has two options: 1. To bring crushing leverage to bear on the Syrian president and force him to order his engineering corps to dig up the hiding places marked on his charts and quietly hand over the wanted weapons to the Americans. For the present, Assad is tossing off any such demands with complete nonchalance. 2. To let American military and engineering units loose on the targeted miles and burrow until the weapons are found. That course could bring American and Syrian armies into a major collision, a development that would rock the Middle East no less than the American invasion of Iraq. But there is a third option. It is that Saddam hand over to his American interrogators the details of the arrangements he worked out with the Syrian president for the transfer of the weapons of mass destruction to their present hiding places. He would have to name the Iraqi and Syrian officials who handled the operation. With this information in hand, President Bush could turn the heat on Assad and demand his cooperation in locating the buried items. If Assad continued to shrug the demands aside, then the evidence against the Syrian president would be laid before the UN Security Council and an international operation mounted to bring the prohibited weapons to light. For now, the captured Iraqi dictator holds the means to fully vindicate President Bush in going to war against his regime in Baghdad. What will the captured man demand for giving the Bush administration its final triumph? According to DEBKAfile’s intelligence experts, Saddam Hussein has never forgotten the terms of the deal offered him by his old friend, former Russian prime minister and KGB chief Yevgeny Primakov, to prevent the war. One month before the American invasion, Primakov visited Baghdad and advised the Iraqi ruler to take himself and his family into perpetual detention in one of the presidential palaces. They would be kept under lock and key for life under international custody - albeit in sumptuous circumstances. The only proviso for averting war and saving his life was that the Iraqi president surrender his forbidden weapons systems to the United Nations. The Iraqi dictator turned the offer down, certain that the Americans if they attacked would be defeated at the gates of Baghdad. However, he told his Russian visitor that he reserved the right to come back to the proposal in the future. This was the deal that may have kept Saddam going in the hole in the ground where he was found and which was behind the first words he said to the US troops who came to get him, namely a offer to negotiate. The entire deal is hardly likely to be available to the former ruler reduced now to wretched circumstances. But Saddam will no doubt apply all his guile and play every card in his deck to save his life. He will be lucky if he can trade his weapons of mass destruction for incarceration for life in Iraq – the Primakov formula minus the palace. debka.com