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To: KLP who wrote (127287)	3/23/2004 8:59:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Oh, in fairness to the Washpost, they have the article available on their website for free, while most of their archived stories require money to access. The article about Richard Clarke and the Sudan aspirin factory, for example, is archived and not accessible without payment of a nominal sum, something like $2.

To: KLP who wrote (127287)	3/23/2004 9:11:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

More "brilliance" from Richard Clarke: "In 1986, as a State Department bureaucrat with pull, he came up with a plan to battle terrorism and subvert Muammar Qaddafi by having SR-71s produce sonic booms over Libya. This was to be accompanied by rafts washing onto the sands of Tripoli, the aim of which was to create the illusion of a coming attack. When this nonsense was revealed, it created embarrassment for the Reagan administration and was buried." securityfocus.com What a genius!

To: KLP who wrote (127287)	3/23/2004 10:15:04 PM
From: John Soileau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<The country's success emboldened it to take a plunge into the most sensitive end of the bacterial pool with a 1986 order for 24 pathogens, including 13 more bacteria designated Class III. That shipment, which like the others received rapid approval from the U.S. Commerce Department, included the specific strains of anthrax, chlostridium botulinum, and chlostridium perfringens that Iraq later selected for mass production as germ weapons.>> Just what administration approved this sale of terror material to Saddam Hussein? Anyone remember who was president in 1986? And who was VP then? Thanks for bringing this to our attention. What an atrocity! John