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To: NightOwl who wrote (38658)	4/9/2004 5:40:58 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

I don't like the sound of the Cease fire. Here are Debka's headlines. Powell: Washington decides not to deduct cost of Israel’s security barrier – app. $300 - from US loan guarantees Coalition troops recapture al Kut Friday from Sadr militia. A British soldier was killed in fighting in another S. Iraqi town, al Amara. DEBKAfile reports exclusively: Expert hostage-taker Mughniyeh and his Hizballah team are orchestrating abduction campaign against foreigners in Iraq. Senior security sources predict hostage-taking first seen in Beirut in 1980s has just begun. Abductions of 1 Briton and 1 Canadian raise count to 7, including 3 Japanese and 2 Jerusalem Palestinians. Seven South Korean clerics captured on highway to Jordan were released. Iraqi guerrilla roadblock on this main route indicates security deterioration in western Iraq. “We are keeping an eye on possible Hizballah attack in America like al Qaeda,” said Bush national security adviser Rice in testimony to 9/11 commission Thursday. “We make no distinction between different kinds of terror on political grounds.” She pointed to structural problem in intelligence gathering that is still not solved. More information about al Qaeda inside US would have been helpful, but the FBI does not communicate. Threat information before 9/11 was focused on abroad – mainly in Persian Gulf, Israel and Genoa. Bin Laden expected response to 2000 Cole bombing. Lack of response was counter-productive. DEBKAfile reveals exclusively: Negotiations begin in Najef between Shiite uprising leader Moqtada Sadr and four Shiite delegations, who are in continuous communication with US administration heads in Baghdad. Facing Marines in Fallujah is new Iraqi guerrilla force Al-Farouk Battalions made up of ex-officers and NCOs from Saddam’s Special Republic Guards crack units and al Qaeda elements.