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...President's resolve to finish the job. "Staying the course" has become the watchword of both the White House and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Washington's most loyal allies, led by Britain's Tony Blair. The mood has been well summarized by Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic Studies: "It doesn't matter how we got here, we are here. And the priority for success is very high...
...risk. "Saddam Hussein might well see burning Iraq's oil fields, and chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attacks on major Gulf oil fields as both a defense and a form of revenge," says Anthony Cordesman, an expert on the Iraqi military...
Experts including Duelfer and Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, believe Saddam has the sophisticated triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium. Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed...
...finished nuclear weapon in its arsenal. But not long ago, anthrax seemed a distant threat. And it is possible for the bad guys to assemble an atom bomb with contraband uranium and off-the-shelf parts. "It's not particularly probable, but it's possible,'" says Anthony Cordesman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "The difficulty is that we are dealing with a wide range of low-probability cases. We can't be afraid of any one, but we have to be concerned about all of them." Among those probabilities: "dirty" conventional bombs...
...privately called him "a chip off the old block," and Israel reacted without alarm. Many analysts regard the leadership turmoil in Jordan as less worrisome than that in other Arab states, where aging Kings and Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only "the first step in a long process that will be going on for the next decade and will affect peace, energy and stability in the region...