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"pedro martori" |
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10 Oct 2004 10:34:40 AM |
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http://elections.metro-dade.com |
PORQUE VOTAR=C9 POR BOLETA AUSENTE
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por Rafael M. Est=E9vez, WA4ZZG ex-CO2ZQ
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El reciente art=EDculo en Ingl=E9s y Espa=F1ol publicado en The =
Miami Herald y El Nuevo Herald titulado =93La Florida Sospechosa=94, =
escrito por el ex-Pdte. Jimmy Carter, el mismo personaje que sin equipo =
especializado o personal competente aval=F3 con una sola pregunta que =
Cuba no ten=EDa armas qu=EDmicas y/o biol=F3gicas, y qui=E9n reci=E9n =
tambi=E9n di=F3 fe de que las elecciones en Venezuela hab=EDan sido =
transparentes, me obliga a escribir mis dudas.
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Muchos de mis amigos y familiares estamos tomando esta medida =
para evitar que sea al rev=E9s de lo que Jimmy dijo. Ese art=EDculo me =
es muy sospechoso y creo que esas nuevas m=E1quinas electr=F3nicas son =
un arma de m=E1s de dos filos. Se les podr=EDa calificar que son =
mara=F1eras, traicioneras o tracaleras.
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Como no hay confirmaci=F3n alguna que la persona vot=F3, s=F3lo =
un letrerito rojo que se enciende cuando se aprieta la tecla de VOTE, no =
se sabe a ciencia cierta hacia d=F3nde fue el voto marcado =
electr=F3nicamente.
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En cambio, en una boleta ausente hay que marcar o llenar el =
espacio medio ovalado requerido para darle el voto a qui=E9n se =
seleccione de la lista y por el n=FAmero asignado. No dudo que pudierera =
surgir inconvenientes no previstos, pero ser=EDa mucho menos el =
porcentaje de que se extraviara.
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En reconteo de votos de las boletas ausentes es muy distinto, =
porque como est=E1n impresas en un material m=E1s s=F3lido parecido a =
una cartulina delgada, son f=E1ciles, visibles de contar y avalar, no =
as=ED las que est=E1n electr=F3nicamente archivadas. =BFC=F3mo se =
recuentan estas =FAltimas? De la misma manera que las cont=F3 el =
dictador legal de Venezuela.
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No estoy acusando a nadie o sugiriendo alguna trampa de que pueda =
sucedernos, pero por si acaso prefiero seguir votando a la antigua que =
ceder mi voto a un modernismo con un alto riesgo de que no sea contado.=20
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En resumen, como escrib=ED anteriormente mi voto me lo contar=E1n =
de otra manera, no con las =93cartas marcadas=94 como el letal d=FAo de =
Jimmy Carter y C=E9sar Gaviria le permitieron hacer al pat=E1n de =
Miraflores.=20
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El solicitar una boleta ausente no es un delito y ya no no es =
necesario que nadie firme como testigo qui=E9n la firm=F3, pero =
aseg=FArese que su firma concuerde con la que est=E1 registrada en el =
Dpto. de Elecciones de su Condado.
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En el Condado Miami-Dade podr=E1 solicitar el modelo o formulario =
al (305) 375-4600, (305) 499-8500 o al (305) 499-8363. La firma deber=E1 =
coincidir con la misma que se hizo al inscribirse para poder votar. Hay =
que ser muy cuidadoso para que su firma sea igual o muy parecida a la =
que est=E1 en el r=E9cord del Condado, de lo contrario pudiera ser =
rechazada.
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Si la persona(s) se decide a votar en algunos de los lugares que =
est=E1n habilitados para votar con anticipaci=F3n a las elecciones y =
as=ED evitar largas filas, se encontrar=E1 con las mismas m=E1quinas de =
votar electr=F3nicamente. =20
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Para solicitar el modelo v=EDa Internet deber=E1 ir a la p=E1gina =
del Dpto. de Elecciones en=20
http://elections.metro-dade.com/ e ir a voting, despu=E9s a =
absentee/voting, absentee ballot y finalmente a request form, e =
imprimirla. No es f=E1cil pero no imposible.=20
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Se aconseja solicitar su boleta ausente al menos 14 d=EDas antes =
de las elecciones, en este caso como son el 2 de noviembre, deber=E1 =
hacerlo a m=E1s tardar el 20 del octubre pr=F3ximo o antes.
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Los que ya hayan solicitado boleta ausente, el Dpto. de Elecciones =
inform=F3 que la empezar=E1 a enviar la semana del lunes 11 de octubre. =
..-.-.
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10 Oct 2004 11:15:04 AM |
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(I have no idea who wrote this, but it is the best I have read on the
subject. )
FOLLOWING THE CODE OF SILENCE
I'm not worthy to question John Kerry's war record.
Because I don't have one.
I spent the Vietnam War in elementary school.=20
And the four years I was in the Army were all behind a desk.=20
My fort was unofficially known as "Uncle Ben's Rest Home."
So I don't know anything about war.
Though I do know a little bit about men who've been to war.=20
I've been around plenty of those.
Like my step-father.
He got bunged up pretty bad in France.=20
I know that because I saw him in a swimming suit once.
But he never talked about it.
Not once.
If you asked him about the war he'd tell hilarious stories about basic
training, or where the guys he served with were from,
or how fun it was learning to fly the gliders, or the time they stole
the ambulance to go into town and get drunk in France, or
a few of the phrases in German he learned.=20
But he'd never actually talk about the war.
Unless he was really drunk.
In which case he still wouldn't talk about it. He'd cry about it.=20
He'd put his head in his arms in the wee hours of the morning
and sob to himself about how the men around him were broken=20
and torn when the gliders crash landed into the French countryside.
But that was only once or twice, and that was never about him.
And the little box of medals at the bottom of his footlocker=20
never came out.
It was kind of the same way at the Legion and the VFW.=20
Every day he'd check in at both places, to sign the book and to have
a beer, and I would tag along. All those men had been in the service,
and most had been in combat, but I never heard a war story.
Lots of Army stories, and Navy stories, sure. About guys they knew=20
and leaves they were on and officers they messed with.
But nothing about the war.
It was the same way in the Army.
In my day, it seemed like everybody above staff sergeant or captain had
been in Vietnam. I went in 10 years after the war
ended but the guys on the second half of their careers had all gone.
You could tell when they wore their dress uniforms.
But that was the only time.
Men didn't talk about what they'd done in the war. They didn't boast of
their accomplishments. They didn't brag about their medals.=20
But if you chanced to see them in their dress uniforms, with the
rows of service ribbons, you could read their history
there, you could see that those who'd done the most spoke of it the =
least.
Like one of our drill sergeants in basic training.
Buffing the floor in his office one day we saw the service ribbons
pinned to his Class A uniform on the coat rack. Comparing
them to the poster in the company day room we learned he'd gotten the
Silver Star, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
We asked about them and he made us do push-ups for being nosey.
The night before graduation, when he welcomed us as fellow soldiers, we
asked him again, we almost pestered him. Finally he
relented and gave us two sentences: "I was in a war. I got hurt."
And that's all he'd say.
Kind of like a man I know, who received the Medal of Honor.=20
One night he stood in a long line to shake hands with Colin
Powell. The man, because of the nature of the event, wore his medal
around his neck.
As he came to Colin Powell the man said,=20
"General, it's an honor to meet you."
And Colin Powell responded, "No, sir - it's an honor to meet you."
Anyway, I know this man, and he's often asked to tell his story, of how
he earned the Medal of Honor. And he never does.
Oh, he answers, and he talks, and he inspires, and he talks about the =
war.
But he neglects the part about the lives he saved and the courage he
showed, and instead talks about a young Vietnamese man
who helped him to safety when his legs were too shot through to hold him
anymore.
I don't know anything about war.
But I do know a little bit about men who've gone to war.
And none of them act the way John Kerry does.
None of them brag about, boast of, talk about or otherwise try to
benefit from their service. They don't prostitute their time
in uniform for personal gain and ambition.
They all modestly and insistently say that they "didn't do anything."
They minimize their contributions and put them in the
context of the similarly courageous and noble service provided by their
comrades.
A true hero doesn't boast.
In fact, he kind of keeps his deeds to himself.=20
Which is what makes John Kerry so different.=20
Which is what makes John Kerry so unbelievable.
I don't know war.
But I do know war heroes.
And he's not one of them
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Karl Rove's White House " Murder, Inc."
By Wayne Madsen .
Online Journal Contributing Writer .
OCT, 2004- On September 15, 2001, just four days after the 9-11 attacks,
CIA Director George Tenet provided President [sic] Bush with a Top Secret
"Worldwide Attack Matrix"-a virtual license to kill targets deemed to be a
threat to the United States in some 80 countries around the world. The Tenet
plan, which was subsequently approved by Bush, essentially reversed the
executive orders of four previous U.S. administrations that expressly
prohibited political assassinations.
According to high level European intelligence officials, Bush's counselor,
Karl Rove, used the new presidential authority to silence a popular Lebanese
Christian politician who was planning to offer irrefutable evidence that
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon authorized the massacre of hundreds of
Palestinian men, women, and children in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra
and Shatilla in 1982. In addition, Sharon provided the Lebanese forces who
carried out the grisly task. At the time of the massacres, Elie Hobeika was
intelligence chief of Lebanese Christian forces in Lebanon who were battling
Palestinians and other Muslim groups in a bloody civil war. He was also the
chief liaison to Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel in Lebanon. An
official Israeli inquiry into the massacre at the camps, the Kahan
Commission, merely found Sharon "indirectly" responsible for the slaughter
and fingered Hobeika as the chief instigator.
The Kahan Commission never called on Hobeika to offer testimony in his
defense. However, in response to charges brought against Sharon before a
special war crimes court in Belgium, Hobeika was urged to testify against
Sharon, according to well-informed Lebanese sources. Hobeika was prepared to
offer a different version of events than what was contained in the Kahan
report. A 1993 Belgian law permitting human rights prosecutions was unusual
in that non-Belgians could be tried for violations against other
non-Belgians in a Belgian court. Under pressure from the Bush
administration, the law was severely amended and the extra territoriality
provisions were curtailed.
Hobeika headed the Lebanese forces intelligence agency since the mid- 1970s
and he soon developed close ties to the CIA. He was a frequent visitor to
the CIA's headquarters at Langley, Virginia. After the Syrian invasion of
Lebanon in 1990, Hobeika held a number of cabinet positions in the Lebanese
government, a proxy for the Syrian occupation authorities. He also served in
the parliament. In July 2001, Hobeika called a press conference and
announced he was prepared to testify against Sharon in Belgium and revealed
that he had evidence of what actually occurred in Sabra and Shatilla.
Hobeika also indicated that Israel had flown members of the South Lebanon
Army (SLA) into Beirut International Airport in an Israeli Air Force C130
transport plane. In full view of dozens of witnesses, including members of
the Lebanese army and others, SLA troops under the command of Major Saad
Haddad were slipped into the camps to commit the massacres. The SLA troops
were under the direct command of Ariel Sharon and an Israeli Mossad agent
provocateur named Rafi Eitan. Hobeika offered evidence that a former U.S.
ambassador to Lebanon was aware of the Israeli plot. In addition, the IDF
had placed a camera in a strategic position to film the Sabra and Shatilla
massacres. Hobeika was going to ask that the footage be released as part of
the investigation of Sharon.
After announcing he was willing to testify against Sharon, Hobeika became
fearful for his safety and began moves to leave Lebanon. Hobeika was not
aware that his threats to testify against Sharon had triggered a series of
fateful events that reached well into the White House and Sharon's office.
On January 24, 2002, Hobeika's car was blown up by a remote controlled bomb
placed in a parked Mercedes along a street in the Hazmieh section of Beirut.
The bomb exploded when Hobeika and his three associates, Fares Souweidan,
Mitri Ajram, and Waleed Zein, were driving their Range Rover past the
TNT-laden Mercedes at 9:40 am Beirut time. The Range Rover's four passengers
were killed in the explosion. In case Hobeika's car had taken another route
through the neighborhood, two additional parked cars, located at two other
choke points, were also rigged with TNT. The powerful bomb wounded a number
of other people on the street. Other parked cars were destroyed and
buildings and homes were damaged. The Lebanese president, prime minister,
and interior minister all claimed that Israeli agents were behind the
attack.
It is noteworthy that the State Department's list of global terrorist
incidents for 2002 worldwide failed to list the car bombing attack on
Hobeika and his party. The White House wanted to ensure the attack was
censored from the report. The reason was simple: the attack ultimately had
Washington's fingerprints on it.
High level European intelligence sources now report that Karl Rove
personally coordinated Hobeika's assassination. The hit on Hobeika employed
Syrian intelligence agents. Syrian President Bashar Assad was trying to
curry favor with the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9-11 and was
more than willing to help the White House. In addition, Assad's father,
Hafez Assad, had been an ally of Bush's father during Desert Storm, a period
that saw Washington give a "wink and a nod" to Syria's occupation of
Lebanon. Rove wanted to help Sharon avoid any political embarrassment from
an in absentia trial in Brussels where Hobeika would be a star witness. Rove
and Sharon agreed on the plan to use Syrian Military Intelligence agents to
assassinate Hobeika. Rove saw Sharon as an indispensable ally of Bush in
ensuring the loyalty of the Christian evangelical and Jewish voting blocs in
the United States. Sharon saw the plan to have the United States coordinate
the hit as a way to mask all connections to Jerusalem.
The Syrian hit team was ordered by Assef Shawkat, the number two man in
Syrian military intelligence and a good friend and brother in law of Syrian
President Bashar Assad. Assad's intelligence services had already cooperated
with U.S. intelligence in resorting to unconventional methods to extract
information from al Qaeda detainees deported to Syria from the United States
and other countries in the wake of 9-11. The order to take out Hobeika was
transmitted by Shawkat to Roustom Ghazali, the head of Syrian military
intelligence in Beirut. Ghazali arranged for the three remote controlled
cars to be parked along Hobeika's route in Hazmieh; only few hundred yards
from the Barracks of Syrian Special Forces which are stationed in the area
near the Presidential palace , the ministry of Defense and various
Government and officers quarters . This particular area is covered 24/7 by a
very sophisticated USA multi-agency surveillance system to monitor Syrian
and Lebanese security activities and is a " Choice " area to live in for its
perceived high security .... [Courtesy of the Special Collections Services.]
.... SCS... ; CIA & NSA & DIA....
The plan to kill Hobeika had all the necessary caveats and built-in denial
mechanisms. If the Syrians were discovered beforehand or afterwards, Karl
Rove and his associates in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans would be
ensured plausible deniability.
Hobeika's CIA intermediary in Beirut, a man only referred to as "Jason" by
Hobeika, was a frequent companion of the Lebanese politician during official
and off-duty hours. During Hobeika's election campaigns for his
parliamentary seat, Jason was often in Hobeika's office offering support and
advice. After Hobeika's assassination, Jason became despondent over the
death of his colleague. Eventually, Jason disappeared abruptly from Lebanon
and reportedly later emerged in Pakistan.
Karl Rove's involvement in the assassination of Hobeika may not have been
the last "hit" he ordered to help out Sharon. In March 2002, a few months
after Hobeika's assassination, another Lebanese Christian with knowledge of
Sharon's involvement in the Sabra and Shatilla massacres was gunned down
along with his wife in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A bullet fired at Michael Nassar's
car flattened one of his tires. Nassar pulled into a gasoline station for
repairs. A professional assassin, firing a gun with a silencer, shot Nassar
and his wife in the head, killing them both instantly. The assailant fled
and was never captured. Nassar was also involved with the Phalange militia
at Sabra and Shatilla. Nassar was also reportedly willing to testify against
Sharon in Belgium and, as a nephew of SLA Commander General Antoine Lahd,
may have had important evidence to bolster Hobeika's charge that Sharon
ordered SLA forces into the camps to wipe out the Palestinians.
Based on what European intelligence claims is concrete intelligence on
Rove's involvement in the assassination of Hobeika, the Bush administration
can now add political assassination to its laundry list of other misdeeds,
from lying about the reasons to go to war to the torture tactics in
violation of the Geneva Conventions that have been employed by the Pentagon
and "third country" nationals at prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and
columnist. He served in the National Security Agency (NSA) during the Reagan
administration and wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. He is the
co-author, with John Stanton, of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of
George Bush II." His forthcoming book is titled: "Jaded Tasks: Big Oil,
Black Ops, and Brass Plates." Madsen can be reached at:
WMadsen777@aol.com
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The Group of Killers who planted the bombs to KILL Marwan Hamade are
the Same Group of Killer Murderers Belonging to a Special Unit in the
Syrian Military Intelligence Apparatus, I.E. a Group of thugs and
Bloodthirthty Killers ordered by Assef Shawkat in person.
The orders get carried out by the chief Killer Roustom Ghazali...
This is the same unit which murdered Mr. Elie Hobeika,
Waleed Zein, Fares Sweidan and Mitri Ajram, on January 24th 2002.
The American Administartion of G.W.Bush keeps these Killers in Place
for all the wrong reasons of course, they utlimately hold the
responsibility of these crimes together with the Syrian Murderers.
Assassination Notes: Jumblat's Strains with Syria, U.S.Seem Easing....
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Marwan Hamadeh's survival of the assassination attempt seems to have
strangely eased Walid Jumblat's strain with both the United States and
Syria. These are the anecdotes of the tragic event:
1-Syria's Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam embraced and kissed Jumblat
as he hurriedly arrived from Damascus at the AUH. It was the first
gesture of peace-making since Jumblat clashed with the Assad regime over
strong-arming the Lebanese parliament to rubberstamp Lahoud's extension.
2-Although the Bush administration had withdrawn Jumblat's open-ended
U.S. visa, American ambassador Jeffrey Feltmen was the second foreign
diplomat to rush to the AUH after French ambassador Phillipe Le
Courtier. Feltmen shook hands with Jumblat and then conveyed well-wishes
to Hamadeh at his hospital bed for a speedy recovery.
3-Assistant Undersecretary of State David Satterfield, a former
ambassador to Beirut, called Jumblat by telephone from Washington to
convey the State Department's sorrow over Hamadeh's episode. State
Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli strongly condemned Hamadeh's
assassination attempt as "vicious terrorist attack."
4-French President Jacques Chirac, who was in conference with German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Strasburg, called Premier Hariri by
telephone in Paris to deplore what he termed "this terrorist act."
Hamadeh is a French national because his mother was French.
5- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed "serious concern" over
the Beirut car-bomb attempt to assassinate Marwan Hamadeh, reiterating
his "abhorrence of such violent acts."
6-Gen. Aoun called from his Paris exile on Syria's and Lebanon's
intelligence services to quickly "investigate and unmask this crime,
especially that they are the prime suspects."
Cases In Point....
The CIA 'old guard' goes to war with Bush
By Phillip Sherwell in Washington
A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has
launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration
with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq.
The White House is incensed by the increasingly public sniping from some
senior intelligence officers who, it believes, are conducting a partisan
operation to swing the election on November 2 in favour of John Kerry,
the Democratic candidate, and against George W Bush.
Head to head: Bush and Kerry Jim Pavitt, a 31-year CIA veteran who
retired as a departmental chief in August, said that he cannot recall a
time of such "viciousness and vindictiveness" in a battle between the
White House and the agency.
John Roberts, a conservative security analyst, commented bluntly: "When
the President cannot trust his own CIA, the nation faces dire consequences."
Relations between the White House and the agency are widely regarded as
being at their lowest ebb since the hopelessly botched Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba by CIA-sponsored exiles under President John F Kennedy
in 1961.
There is anger within the CIA that it has taken all the blame for the
failings of pre-war intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes.
Former senior CIA officials argue that so-called "neo-conservative"
hawks such as the vice president, ***** Cheney, the secretary of defence,
Donald Rumsfeld, and his number three at the defence department, Douglas
Feith, have prompted the ill-feeling by demanding "politically
acceptable" results from the agency and rejecting conclusions they did
not like. Yet Colin Powell, the less hardline secretary of state, has
also been scathing in his criticism of pre-war intelligence briefings.
The leaks are also a shot across the bows of Porter Goss, the agency's
new director and a former Republican congressman. He takes over with
orders from the White House to end the in-fighting and revamp the
troubled spy agency as part of a radical overhaul of the American
intelligence world.
Bill Harlow, the former CIA spokesman who left with the former director
George Tenet in July, acknowledged that there had been leaks from within
the agency. "The intelligence community has been made the scapegoat for
all the failings over Iraq," he said. "It deserves some of the blame,
but not all of it. People are chafing at that, and that's the background
to these leaks."
Fighting to defend their patch ahead of the future review, anti-Bush CIA
operatives have ensured that Iraq remains high on the election campaign
agenda long after Republican strategists such as Karl Rove, the
President's closest adviser, had hoped that it would fade from the front
pages.
In the latest clash, a senior former CIA agent revealed that Mr Cheney
"blew up" when a report into links between the Saddam regime and Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist behind the kidnappings and beheadings of
hostages in Iraq, including the Briton Kenneth Bigley, proved inconclusive.
Other recent leaks have included the contents of classified reports
drawn up by CIA analysts before the invasion of Iraq, warning the White
House about the dangers of post-war instability. Specifically, the
reports said that rogue Ba'athist elements might team up with terrorist
groups to wage a guerrilla war.
Critics of the White House include officials who have served in previous
Republican administrations such as Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA head
of counter-terrorism and member of the National Security Council under
Ronald Reagan.
"These have been an extraordinary four years for the CIA and the
political pressure to come up with the right results has been enormous,
particularly from Vice-President Cheney.
"I'm afraid that the agency is guilty of bending over backwards to
please the administration. George Tenet was desperate to give them what
they wanted and that was a complete disaster."
With the simmering rows breaking out in public, the Wall Street Journal
declared in an editorial that the administration was now fighting two
insurgencies: one in Iraq and one at the CIA.
In a difficult week for President Bush leading up to Friday's
presidential debate, the CIA-led Iraqi Survey Group confirmed that
Saddam had had no weapons of mass destruction, while Mr Rumsfeld
distanced himself from the administration's long-held assertion of ties
between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terror network.
Earlier, unguarded comments by Paul Bremer, the former American
administrator of Iraq who said that America "never had enough troops on
the ground", had given the row about post-war strategy on the ground
fresh impetus.
With just 23 days before the country votes for its next president, both
sides are braced for further bruising encounters.
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Israel, Syria battle over U.S. ties
Israel and Syria are trading furious charges over who is trying to
undermine whom as Syria seeks to curry favor with the Bush
administration.
at http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041001-102216-3348r.htm
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