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To: Don Hurst who wrote (174810)	11/12/2005 4:36:22 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Btw, were the Amman bombings the "Last Throes"? It's an interesting turn of events, that's for sure.. Hundreds of people in Zarqawi's home country rallying around the Amman calling for his death.. King 'Abdallah finally finding an motivation rational for implementing a strong counter-terrorism effort within Jordan... AQIZ on the political defensive and having to "explain" why they committed the attack?? Yeah.. that was a major paradigm shift, IMO.. And a possible sign that the so-called "arab street" is fed up with Al Qai'da and is finally willing to take steps to fight them (or at least not provide support to them).. I hope that history proves me correct. Btw, I did read Ghost Wars.. and I see no comparison between giving money to Pakistan's ISI, who then purchased Chinese weapons and surplus Soviet era equipment, and the unsubstantiated claim that the US DIRECTLY armed Iraq with Soviet equipment.. The sheer ILLOGIC, if not the fact that US based Arms manufacturers would have been raving made, demonstrates the fallacy of the notion. Futhermore, since the US had declared Iraq a state supporter of Terrorism, directly providing weapons to Saddam would have made Iran-Contra look like a day in traffic court. Hawk