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...between Israeli and Palestinian leaders over how or whether to proceed has been a stark reminder that what the roadmap stands for right now is little more than a statement of the good intentions of its authors. The opportunity for peace the President had confidently predicted would follow Saddam Hussein's ouster has failed to materialize, the situation on the ground is no different than it was before the invasion, and the absence of cash handouts from Saddam for their families appears to have done little to discourage young Palestinians from volunteering for suicide-terror missions. Israel, for its part...
...headquarters and at least five bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade ceased last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean (prior to his recent assassination). Belgrade then persuaded Yugoimport to hand over blueprints of the bunkers. A senior Foreign Ministry official says Yugoimport's leaders agreed to help "only when they understood that there would be something in it for them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms...
...most strident critic of the war, France has long enjoyed a close trading relationship with Iraq. French oil companies have operated there for most of the past 75 years. Although no oil contracts were signed, the French and the Hussein government in the early 1990s entered into a memorandum of understanding calling for French companies to develop oil fields and produce 1 million bbl. a day. Like most of Europe, France relies on imported oil and petroleum products to meet its needs, which amount to about 2 million bbl. daily...
...same time the U.S. was moving into the Persian Gulf militarily and supplying Afghan rebels, all based on a faulty CIA oil assessment, it was also secretly supporting Saddam Hussein. The Reagan Administration remained neutral after Iraq's invasion of Iran in September 1980, but as the war progressed and it appeared that Iran might emerge victorious, the U.S. secretly backed Iraq, according to declassified government documents. That began in 1982, when the State Department removed Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism. According to a General Accounting Office report, this "made Iraq eligible to purchase aircraft, helicopters...
...Saddam Hussein does not turn up anywhere in the Middle East, it might be wise to search for him where nobody would think to look--say, in a posh hotel in Las Vegas. Perhaps he might even be meeting with Osama bin Laden there. TURAN FETTAHOGLU Munich...