Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:56:05 -0100
Subject: Re: [P_F_P] Sontag on the current crisis


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  Steve wrote:

  Yes - what's interesting about this particular event is the extent to which it is 'global' and appears to involve all the G20 countries as well as those who are trying to rejoin the global community i.e. Iran, and are using this as a way out of their isolationist positions. From this, perhaps/of course they'll get the aid they desperately need to support the 3million afghan refugees on the border... (the media representation of this number is going down at the moment, perhaps to make them not have to think about the recent hooha over a couple of thousand refugees camped out at the french end of the cross channel tunnel....)

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  1) The refugee item is news to me.  Can you tell us more?

  2) An NYTimes OpEd article today (Safire). states terrorists with Katyusha rockets mounted on Toyota Landcruisers have been brought into Kurdistan by various Arab terrorists, to assist Saddam Hussein in reclaiming the "no-fly zone" which is presently enforced by U.S. aircraft.  Because of his history of using bio-agents, and defeat of inspection of Iraq's continuing R&D of bio-weapons, Hussein is seen as the "boss of bosses" of bio-terrorists, and worthy of a pre-emptive strike.  

  Hugh

   
 




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Steve wrote:

Yes - what's interesting about this particular event is the extent to which it is 'global' and appears to involve all the G20 countries as well as those who are trying to rejoin the global community i.e. Iran, and are using this as a way out of their isolationist positions. From this, perhaps/of course they'll get the aid they desperately need to support the 3million afghan refugees on the border... (the media representation of this number is going down at the moment, perhaps to make them not have to think about the recent hooha over a couple of thousand refugees camped out at the french end of the cross channel tunnel....)

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1) The refugee item is news to me.  Can you tell us more?

 

2) An NYTimes OpEd article today (Safire). states terrorists with Katyusha rockets mounted on Toyota Landcruisers have been brought into Kurdistan by various Arab terrorists, to assist Saddam Hussein in reclaiming the "no-fly zone" which is presently enforced by U.S. aircraft.  Because of his history of using bio-agents, and defeat of inspection of Iraq's continuing R&D of bio-weapons, Hussein is seen as the "boss of bosses" of bio-terrorists, and worthy of a pre-emptive strike. 

 

Hugh