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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (4022)	12/28/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: VBroady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90042

Don't bother -- silly nonsense. Unfortunately, the author will make millions because people are such sheep.

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (4022)	12/28/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Glenn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90042

Just curious, If it goes up in smoke, do they cancel my day orders? I'm new here and don't understand all of the rules. Smiles, Glenn (I axed cOUSIN SHORTY but he was evasive as usual)

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (4022)	12/28/1998 1:15:00 AM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 90042

Sunday December 27, 11:45 pm Eastern Time FOCUS-Iraq vows to shoot down US, British planes LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Iraq vowed to shoot down any U.S. and British aircraft over its territory, but amid the heightened tensions U.N. officials said they were unaware of reported Baghdad threats to curtail the so-called ''oil-for-food'' programme. Adding a new dimension to the Iraqi crisis, Arab parliamentarians on Sunday condemned the recent four-day U.S. and British bombardment of Iraq, saying it jeopardised regional peace and deepened the hardships of Iraqis reeling under U.N. sanctions. U.N. officials said Iraq had not notified them of any curtailment of the oil-for-food deal and diplomats said they did not expect to hear anything on the issue for several months. ''We have not been informed officially of anything,'' U.N. programme spokesman John Mills said on Sunday. He was responding to reports that Iraqi officials had threatened to reject a further extension of the programme, which allows Baghdad to sell $5.256 billion of oil every six months to buy food, medicines and other supplies to ease the impact of the eight-year-old U.N. sanctions on ordinary Iraqis. Iraq, heading into what could be a new confrontation, warned the United States and Britain earlier on Sunday it would fire at planes patrolling over its territory. Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told Reuters Television the government did not recognise the northern and southern ''no-fly zones'' which Western air forces patrol to exclude Iraqi aircraft. Iraqi air defences would ''do what they can to confront this violation,'' he said -- meaning the armed forces would fire anti-aircraft weapons. Britain reacted by saying its aircraft would shoot back if attacked. Iraq said on Saturday it had fired at Western aircraft attacking a post in the south of the country. The United States and Britain, which launched a campaign of strikes against Iraq on December 17 in a dispute over post-Gulf War weapons inspections, declared the attacks finished on December 20. Iraqi officials say the raids have not stopped. Baghdad has threatened to curtail the oil-for-food programme before each renewal except the last one at the end of November when the transition went smoothly. Mills said the programme fell under a memorandum of understanding signed every six months between Iraq and the United Nations, based on Security Council resolutions. ''We are there on an agreement between the government of Iraq and the United Nations, based on Security Council resolutions,'' he said. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon signed the memorandum in late November, extending the programme for 180 days, until late April. Mills noted there had been no difficulty in several hundred U.N. humanitarian workers, who supervise the programme, entering or leaving the country and oil flows were at the same pace. The programme is an exception to the sanctions imposed by the Security Council shortly after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990. Iraq has disliked the plan since its inception, viewing it as a measure to keep sanctions in place. The Iraqi News Agency INA carried a letter from Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz to all Arab parties and organisations urging them to condemn the strikes and to work towards ending the sanctions. Since the U.S.-British air bombardment ended, Iraq has insisted sanctions should be lifted. It has also said there would be no more weapons inspections until such a move took place. So far the U.N. humanitarian programme has proceeded without incident. Fathi Sorour, head of the Arab Parliamentary Union, told an emergency session of the APU in Amman: ''The aggression on Iraq represents a dangerous policy which is against international law and shakes regional and international security.'' The APU meeting was speedily convened at the request of Jordan's parliament to rally support for Iraq in the wake of widespread popular anger across the Arab world against the four days of air raids earlier this month. Thousands protested in Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Rabat and other Arab capitals to express fury over the strikes and frustration at their own governments' failure to censure Washington. Kuwait, though a member of the 19-member APU, declined to attend the Amman meeting, delegates said. Western planes took off from Kuwaiti territory to bomb Iraq in the recent raids. A joint statement at the end of the one-day meeting strongly condemned the U.S-led strikes and urged Arab parliamentarians to lobby and pressure their governments to unilaterally lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq. Iraq vented frustration on Sunday that the U.N. was holding up chicken farming deals Baghdad had signed with Arab firms. ''The Agricultural Ministry held the Sanctions Committee 661...responsible for impeding agricultural deals for buying hatching eggs and other needs to run poultry projects,'' the Iraqi News Agency said.