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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (37555)	2/14/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Check out this new entry into the equation ($40. Oil?). Shorts BEWARE !! February 14 6:38 PM ET Iraq Warns Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Over Air Bases By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq told Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Sunday to stop letting U.S. and British warplanes use their bases to patrol the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, and threatened to retaliate if they failed to do so. ''We warn the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and tell them 'you are now involved in an aggressive war which the peoples of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have no interest in, but America and Zionism do,''' said a statement issued after a meeting of top Iraqi officials led by President Saddam Hussein. ''If you are helpless and you have no desire for the aggression, we are able to target sources and means of aggression, and from anywhere it is launched, after relying on God and the support of our Arab nation,'' the statement said, quoted by Baghdad television. ''If you are doing that deliberately to kill more Iraqi women, children, men and the elderly and destroy Iraqi property, God is above you,'' it added. A U.S. military spokesman in Washington said Iraq ''issues lots of rhetoric, lots of threat'' and the latest warning would not halt patrols of the southern no-fly zones. ''We are going to continue to patrol the no-fly zone. We are going to protect our interests there,'' the Pentagon spokesman said. There were no clashes Sunday, the Pentagon said. Saturday, U.S. military jets attacked two Iraqi defense sites in the southern no-fly zone, including one that fired on coalition aircraft patrolling the zone. Iraq said the U.S. attack killed three civilians and wounded many others. The television said Sunday's meeting was attended by Vice- chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) Izzat Ibrahim, Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan and member of the RCC Ali Hassan al-Majeed. The statement followed a series of harsh verbal attacks by Iraq in recent weeks on its neighbors, coupled with demands that their rulers be removed for allowing the use of their bases by Western aircraft which patrol the skies over southern Iraq. The zones, set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect southern Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims from possible attacks by Baghdad, have recently seen attacks on Iraq's air defenses when they targeted U.S. and British fighter jet patrols. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz Sunday visited NATO member Turkey to try to persuade it to stop western aircraft using Turkish bases to patrol a no-fly zone in northern Iraq, set up to protect Iraqi Kurdish enclave.