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To: jttmab who wrote (147713)	10/13/2004 9:24:38 AM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Suicide bombings and decapitation are not acceptable forms of punishment. The entire movement of Islam to enourage the use of force against the impurity of non Islamic tradition has to be stopped by way of official mandate.

To: jttmab who wrote (147713)	10/13/2004 1:23:08 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Should people be surprised when an ally of the United States is accused of carrying out beheadings as a matter of legal punishment? Of course not. Nor should they be surprised when a number of the "coalition of the willing" show up in CIA reports as having supplied materials to "the enemy": - Poland supplied Iraq with large missile rocket motors, - Japan supplied Iraq with materials for military projects, including fuel components for rockets a hawkish Bush administration suggested could be pointed at Israel, among other destinations. - Spain supplied a laser pointed drill - Autopilots for its crude drone program from an agent in Australia, as well as (CIA agents own words "Expensive Looking Equipment") - Cutting machine from Bulgaria - Modifications of Czech trainer aircraft (no indication of source) - In the 70's and 80's, during at least part of this time when the US itself was secretly supplying weapons and intel to Saddam (and then Iran to be fair), Portugal and Italy supplied Iraq with Uranium "yellow cake" (as did non coalition members Niger and Brazil) - Italy was the primary supplier of 81-mm rockets - in 2000 Romanian company signed a contract to supply magnets etc. France and Russia are often quoted as having big military interests in Iraq, and especially in the case of France, their motives have always been questioned in the popular press and occasionally in sidelines by administration figures. Interestingly, France appears only 5 times in Volume 2 of the report (all describing events long before 1991) and only once in Volume 3 (reference to a new "drop tank" for a Mirage fighter. Of course, Iraq has no functioning air force since 1991, and the CIA believes that Iraq clandestinely destroyed all its bio WMD capability in 1991. Yet various "coalition partners" appear far more frequently in the CIA report. Things that make you go hmnnn....