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To: nwrep

Wanna see something cool?

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3693e5252fa6.htm

Tee-hee....already posted!


29 posted on 06/22/2004 7:13:47 PM PDT by Huck (Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers...)
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To: Huck
more from this article, as originally posted on FR (see post 29):

Though it was too early to know for sure, the CIA suspected that bin Laden had a hand in the abduction of 16 foreign tourists in Yemen last week. Four of the hostages--three Britons and an Australian--were killed when the police intervened, and two others, including an American woman, were wounded. Most kidnappings in Yemen are strictly cash-and-carry affairs, in which tribal desperadoes raise money without harming their captives. But these kidnappers, who came from a Yemeni group calling itself Islamic Jihad, demanded that the authorities release two of their leaders, who have ties to bin Laden. And they said they were protesting Western "aggression" against Iraq.

The idea of an alliance between Iraq and bin Laden is alarming to the West (what if Baghdad gave the terrorists highly portable biological weapons?). Saddam may think he's too good for such an association. Jerold Post, a political psychologist and government consultant who has profiled Saddam, says he thinks of himself as a world leader like Castro or Tito, not a thug. "I'm skeptical that Saddam would resort to terrorism," says a well-informed administration official. "He can do a lot of other things to screw with us." But Saddam is famous for doing whatever it takes to stay in power. Now that the United States has made his removal from office a national objective, he knows he is fighting for his life. "The worst thing you can do is to wound him, let him know you meant to kill him, and then let him survive," says an Iraqi Shiite leader in London. As his own people know only too well, Saddam is quite capable of fighting dirty.


33 posted on 06/22/2004 7:17:47 PM PDT by Huck (Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers...)
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To: Huck

LOL.........that's making me LOL......remember how everybody would whine and moan anything Jim and/or John made ANY kind of change to the forum back then?

They drug us kicking and screaming into the the 21st century, didn't they?


34 posted on 06/22/2004 7:18:26 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Huck

Nice!


40 posted on 06/22/2004 7:31:18 PM PDT by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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