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'Only a miracle can prevent a US-led war' (fwd)




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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:54:02 -0500
From: Murray Kahl <kahl1@gate.net>
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Subject: 'Only a miracle can prevent a US-led war'


'Only a miracle can prevent a US-led war'
November 13 2002 at 05:26AM

Dubai - Barring a miracle, a United States-led war on Iraq looks
inevitable, even if Baghdad agrees to the drastic disarmament terms set out
by the United Nations Security Council, Arab analysts said on Tuesday.

"Resolution 1441 is a minefield," said Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the
London-based Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper.

"It's a statement of war as well as a death sentence. It's stuffed full of
draconian conditions and provocations. It will inevitably cause numerous
crises."

Mustafa Bakri, editor of Egypt's Al-Usboa weekly newspaper wrote: "America
is not targeting just the alleged weapons of mass destruction or regime
change in Iraq, it wants to change the geopolitical map of the region,
under the influence of the military-industrial lobby," he said.

'Iraq can win time by banking on operations carried out by al-Qaeda or
sympathisers of the network'
Mohammed Said Idriss, from the strategic studies centre of Cairo daily
Al-Ahram said: "War against Iraq is an obligatory stage, a necessity to
impose a new international order giving legitimacy to the superpower and
world leadership of the United States."

Idriss said that the "only way out for Saddam Hussein is to be in the pay
of America, to establish relations with Israel and to agree to Iraq
becoming a substitute homeland for the Palestinians... in other words, a
miracle".

Another "miracle", says Mohammed al-Sabri, a researcher at Sanaa University
in Yemen, would be "major terrorist operations which would block the
American plan of attack".

"Iraq can win time by banking on operations carried out by al-Qaeda or
sympathisers of the network." - Sapa-AFP

This article was originally published on page 2 of The Cape Times on 13
November 2002

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