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To: E who wrote (149597)	10/28/2004 1:31:30 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

Wow. As for Kerry jumping to conclusions... even I believe he hit the subject too hard and fast, although given his obvious interest in the non-proliferation file now, I don't blame him for personalizing this subject a bit. At any date, he's apparently jumped to the right conclusions, as piece by piece falls into place. Mohammed al-Sharaa, who heads the science ministry's site monitoring department and worked with UN weapons inspectors under Saddam, said "it is impossible that these materials could have been taken from this site before the regime's fall." He said he and other officials had been ordered a month earlier to insure that "not even a shred of paper left the sites." "The officials that were inside this facility (Al-Qaqaa) beforehand confirm that not even a shred of paper left it before the fall [of IRAQ] and I spoke to them about it and they even issued certified statements to this effect which the US-led coalition was aware of." He said officials at Al-Qaqaa, including its general director, whom he refused to name, made contact with US troops before the fall in an effort to get them to provide security for the site. Time will tell...