-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iraqi paper expects Baghdad to face U.S. retaliation By Khaled Yacoub Oweis BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's most influential newspaper said on Monday it expected the country to be a target of U.S. retaliation after last week's attacks in New York and Washington. "We do not rule out that we are in the forefront of countries that America wants to attack," said Babel, the newspaper of President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday. Babel said U.S. concentration on Afghanistan as the primary focus of any revenge strike could be a cover for a plan to hit other countries like North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Al-Thawra, an official newspaper, said the United States was intent on using the attack as an excuse to "humiliate totally" Arabs and Muslims. U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said Washington will go after countries that harbour "terrorists and their organisations" in retaliation for the attacks, which left more than 5,000 dead and missing. A U.S.-led coalition bombed Iraq heavily during the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqi targets still come under attack by Western planes policing two "no-fly" zones in the north and south of the country. Iraqi officials declined to comment on whether Iraq would be the subject of U.S. retribution. Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told Reuters on Sunday that Iraq hoped the attacks on New York and Washington would force America to reconsider its foreign policy. Sabri was quoted by the Iraqi News Agency on Monday expressing disapproval of U.S. threats to exercise revenge. "Apparently it has become routine for the United States to talk about aggression on sovereign nations and peoples aspiring for security and stability," the minister said. Privately, officials in Baghdad expressed relief after U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell said Washington did not possess evidence linking Iraq to the attack. Life in the Iraqi capital on Monday was normal and people went on with their routine business. The exchange rate was stable at 2,003 dinars to the dollar. Government buildings, which were targets of previous Western bombardment, remained well lit at night. At the Trabeel border crossing with Jordan, a main land outlet available to Iraq, drivers said movement was subdued. "People don't know what to expect," one man said. "They are postponing their journeys in both directions." An Iraqi official said: "When you've gone through as much bombardment as we did, life goes on normally, even under the present circumstances." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
