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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (19575)	10/28/2004 8:33:38 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Cherry picking? There are more flaws in the website, www.husseinandterror.com. Abu Abbas, for example. Even Israel allowed him in and out of Gaza a few years ago as it accepted that he had given up violence and was supporting the Oslo peace process. Israel could not prosecute him under the terms of the Oslo accords anyway. news.bbc.co.uk Since the U.S. also signed the accords, it was doubtful the U.S. could prosecute him, which is why nothing was done with him in the year since he was captured and finally died. Pretty hard for Saddam to be accused of harboring a terrorist when both Israel and the United States have renounced rights to prosecute that person.

To: Sully- who wrote (19575)	10/28/2004 9:12:58 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Cherry picking? Sorry, but the devil is in the details. Agree with www.husseininandterror.com about Abu Nigal... the worst of the worst - even the Palestinians had a bounty on his head for murdering a few of their officials. Unfortunately, using him as a rational for invasion is questionable since he committed suicide, with four bullet wounds to the head, two months before the invasion. The Iraqi govt claims he entered Iraq illegally using a Yemeni passport... but who knows. Nevertheless, he was killed by the Iraqis... oops... committed suicide... before the invasion. In a side note... how many people did Saddam kill? Well read this news just out: "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal. Ah... but we got Saddam and the Iraqis are free! reuters.co.uk