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...Shik, a former professor at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the North Korean leader watched the Gulf War closely and even ordered a film produced that analyzed the weak points of the U.S. military. The conclusion: Iraq lost because it lacked the will to attack U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and explode gas and oil pipelines. He made his military officials watch the film to boost morale. But Lee Young Kuk, a former bodyguard to Kim, says his ex-boss "is afraid of the U.S. He knows he can't beat them...
...could say that pop culture was the one American institution that whipped terrorism. Osama bin Laden would have liked little better than to subdue America's entertainment-media machine. That thong-wearing, freedom-flaunting international corrupter of values inflames his followers as painfully as any military base in Saudi Arabia, and there is no irony in Osama's Islam. But pop culture, as it turns out, is the Western equivalent of al-Qaeda: it's hard to kill because it is borderless, amorphous and stateless, and because it throws back at you the weapons you use against...
...Saudi Connection...
Your report on the Bush administration's efforts to make Saudi Arabia increase its antiterrorism efforts stated that some officials believe that Saudi Arabia has furnished al-Qaeda with money and recruits [World, Dec. 9]. If that is the case, then the innocent Saudi people are incapable of subduing the rotten ones or unwilling to do so. Congress's idea of reducing aid and denying visas to Saudis is the least the U.S. should do. Bush needs to focus on Saudi Arabia, a country that is already killing us. DONALD KARDOS Hoboken...
...Saudi Arabia has oil. So does Iraq. Iraq's terrorism connections are questionable. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a prime pool for al-Qaeda funding and recruitment. Iraq has the armed strength to affect the region, including the potential for weapons of mass destruction. The Saudi military is negligible. The U.S. wants oil, and it is still livid about Sept. 11. Powerful allies of convenience are useful. Let's hook up with Saddam Hussein, and together we can achieve a regime change in terrorist-coddling Saudi Arabia. TOM LANE Chicago...