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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (31707)	11/11/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: marc chatman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

<<CASH .....gotta keep some here imho>> Absolutely. Sector is in the midst of a short term move down. It's a good idea to look for support levels before trying to catch the knife (take it from one who got cut). Anyone trading the events in Iraq is gambling IMO. Good luck to anyone who tries it (sincerely). I'm not saying it won't work, just that it may not be a very high %age play.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (31707)	11/11/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Ditchdigger	Respond to of 95453

Keep thinking I want to snatch NE @ 15, but beginning to believe it will get cheaper.Todays US performance will weigh heavily on the Asian and Euro markets tonight,which inturn,will play on tomorrows US performance-what a cycle<g>-Welcome to the over bought zone<lol!>.DD

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (31707)	11/14/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: P.Prazeres	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Iraq To Allow Inspections To Resume By LEON BARKHO Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq will allow U.N. weapons inspections to resume without conditions, U.N. special envoy Prakash Shah said today. The response could avert a U.S. military attack. Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations said inspectors would be allowed to return immediately. ''They will be allowed any minute they want to to go back and to resume their normal work,'' Nizar Hamdoon said. Shah said the Iraqi leadership sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying that he will allow the work of inspectors from the U.N. Special Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume at suspected weapons sites. There are ''no conditions ... in this letter,'' Shah said. ''The point ... is that the leadership of Iraq has decided to resume working with UNSCOM and IAEA and allow them to perform their normal duties,'' Shah told a news conference. Saddam's decision could defuse the crisis over arms inspections that has led to threatened American attacks on Iraq and a buildup of U.S. military forces in the Gulf. Hamdoon delivered a letter today to Annan's residence. Annan, meeting with reporters outside the residence, said of the letter, ''I think it's positive.'' He said the Security Council would meet at 3:30 p.m. today, ''and they will have this letter before them.'' ''They will decide what next to do,'' Annan said. Asked whether the weapons inspectors would now be returning to Iraq, Annan replied: ''Once the issue is resolved, that's what I think should happen.'' Hamdoon said Friday that Annan had sent a letter to Saddam. He said he didn't know the contents, but Western diplomats said it repeated Annan's urgent appeal Wednesday for Iraq to resume cooperation with the inspectors immediately. It was understood in Baghdad that the letter contained a personal pledge by Annan to work for the lifting of U.N.sanctions on Iraq if the weapons inspectors were allowed to go back to work. Iraq had demanded that the U.N. Security Council, in offering a comprehensive review of the U.N. arms inspections, specifically say that review was designed to end the sanctions, which ban Iraq's free export of oil and have devastated the country's economy. The sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, sparking the Gulf War. Such a promise from Annan would be less than a Security Council pledge, but it could offer Iraq a way out of the current crisis as an American attack on the country appeared more and more likely. The news of the breakthrough came after statements Friday by both Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and President Clinton appeared to offer little hope of ending the crisis. Iraqi newspapers today appealed for Arab help in the event an attack was launched, and Iraqis took to the streets in government-organized demonstrations backing Saddam. ''With our blood and souls we shall defend you, Saddam,'' chanted members of the ruling Baath Party, while at another demonstration Iraqi workers trampled on and burned American and Israeli flags. In his statement Friday, Saddam made clear that nothing less than a pledge to lift U.N. sanctions would end the standoff. Saddam insisted he was not trying to create a crisis with his decisions in August and last month to block the searches by U.N. inspectors for hidden weapons. Referring to Iraq's insistence that it see a path toward ending U.N. trade sanctions, Saddam declared: ''Iraq will accept positively any initiative that meets these just and balanced demands.'' But Clinton declared the standoff would only end when Iraq resumed its cooperation with the U.N. Special Commission. The Security Council says the trade sanctions cannot be lifted until the inspectors certify that Iraq has destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.