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To: lurqer who wrote (41884)	4/8/2004 7:30:06 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 89467

US now the common enemy of Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq: experts ""You can divide and rule, or you can attack everybody and the effect is that you unite them against you," Shehadi told AFP. The latter was the situation now faced by the United States and its allies in Iraq, he said." Message 20002894

To: lurqer who wrote (41884)	4/8/2004 7:39:34 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Shortly after the 3-11 attacks, in a discussion with Ray, I mentioned what "easy prey" Al Qaeda might go after next - Japan and Italy. In both cases, you have an Anzar type leader going against the popular will to send troops to Iraq. Hostages' families want SDF to leave Iraq TOKYO — Family members of two of the three Japanese nationals abducted by a militant group in Iraq urged the government Thursday to withdraw Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops from Iraq as the terrorists threatened to kill their hostages if the troops do not leave in three days. "My son has been against the dispatch of the SDF," Naoko Imai, 51, mother of 18-year-old hostage Noriaki Imai, told reporters outside the family's home in Sapporo, Hokkaido. "Perhaps I shouldn't say this, but I want the SDF to retreat." japantoday.com Just as Americans don't want the Marines to retreat. The real problem is leaders that put troops in untenable positions. JMO lurqer