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To: Alighieri who wrote (181919)	1/30/2004 5:02:38 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1575803

Al Re...French diplomats have dismissed any suggestion that their foreign policy was influenced by payments from Saddam. Of course not. Saddam always gave away millions of barrels, because the Iraqis had too much food, and money, and Saddam was too nice of a guy to let it go to waste. We believe you. At present there is almost a war of documents under way as Iraqis come to the realisation that they could be used as blackmail or as a settling of scores. And the leak of the documents could be a manipulation by the US-backed authorities in Iraq to discredit France. I don't know where the author gets this part. I read the original Al Mada story, and it wasn't that long, and didn't say anything about them, possibly being a manipulation. And that possibility isn't mentioned in the Pravda article either. Just the opposite, it has been confirmed the documents are real.