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To: Steven W.
Iraqis said that the devices and cameras were "destroyed by western bombing".

But not the walls that held the cameras? Sure. I still have no faith in the word of an Islamist.

/john

14 posted on 12/02/2002 4:32:21 PM PST by JRandomFreeper
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To: JRandomFreeper
But not the walls that held the cameras? Sure. I still have no faith in the word of an Islamist.

Iraq isn't what you'd describe as an "Islamist" state. The guiding philosophy of Saddam and the Iraqi state is Baathism, which is basically a fanatical form of Arab National Socialism (Nazism) but which has nothing to do with religion. Baathism was invented by Michael Aflaq, a Syrian Arab Christian. Whatever pseudo-Islamic trappings the Iraqi state has (the lettering on their flag, added right before the Gulf War in a desperate attempt to curry favor from Muslims) etc. is superficial propaganda.

73 posted on 12/02/2002 7:40:39 PM PST by John H K
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