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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45355)	12/22/2003 5:59:47 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 50167

"If he's treated properly now, one can say: 'Do you want to follow Saddam Hussein? Or do you want to follow Colonel Gaddafi, that well-known, wise elder statesman of the Arab world?"' Ah, the cruel ironies of life. Saddam was a loyal agent for the CIA since he was a 22 year old street thug, and Kaddafi was assiduously independent of Western covert operators. In a cruel irony, Saddam is humiliated as a reward for his loyalty and Kaddafi is honored for doing a wink-and-nod routine. ******* As Codevilla explains, the Central Intelligence Agency backed the Ba'athist clique that in 1959 sought to overthrow then-premier Abdul Karim Kassem. Among this group was the 22-year-old Saddam. After a failed coup attempt "the CIA then set up Saddam in luxurious exile in Cairo, where he continued to be handled both through Egyptian intelligence and directly from the US embassy", reports Codevilla. Another attempt to kill Kassem succeeded in 1963, and Saddam headed the secret police in the new regime." atimes.com