.....don't need WMD's for a reason to rid the world of a supporter of terrorism. Now they want us out.... so let's leave. Let them tear each other to shreds since they seem to have all the answers. There are just three rules they need to live by: don't bring violence outside of their borders, don't play with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, and don't support international terrorism. Other than that, have a nice day and buh bye.
agree that it would be a short lived rally, but a osama bin laden capture would lead to a powerful rally.
U.S. steps up manhunt for Hussein and sons By PAUL KORING From Monday's Globe and Mail E-mail this Article Print this Article Advertisement Washington â Intensified military efforts to kill Saddam Hussein may have succeeded, U.S. senators briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies said yesterday, although they had been given no confirmation by the Pentagon. With this very aggressive effort that we have been mounting, I will not be surprised at any military action that would lead to the possibility that we have now finally killed Saddam Hussein," Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said in an interview on Fox News Sunday. "Pat and I both hope that we've scored, but we don't know that," intelligence committee vice-chairman Jay Rockefeller said on the same program. As members of the intelligence committee, they are among the best-informed people in Washington. Reports published in the London-based Observer weekly said yesterday that U.S. warplanes had bombed a vehicle convoy in the western Iraqi desert, close to the Syrian border, and that U.S. forensic experts were examining DNA samples taken from victims of the attack to determine if the Iraqi leader or either of his two sons had been killed. Although the Pentagon maintained its usual tight-lipped position of refusing to comment officially on current operations, there are persistent reports that a special military task force has been formed to hunt for Mr. Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay. That reflects a shift in U.S. intelligence assessments, from presuming the Iraqi leader was dead to presuming he's alive. Twice, the first time on March 20 on the eve of the ground war and then later on April 7, the United States launched massive strikes on locations in Baghdad where Mr. Hussein and members of his inner circle were believed to be hiding. But painstaking examination of both blast sites have failed to produce any evidence that top Iraqis were killed in either air strike. Intensified efforts to locate Mr. Hussein followed the capture last week of one of his closest advisers, Abid Hamad Mahmud al-Tikriti, considered No. 4 or the ace of diamonds in the card deck of most-wanted Iraqis, who claimed Mr. Hussein and his sons were alive. That, coupled with evidence that Hussein loyalists have intensified guerrilla strikes on U.S. occupying forces, apparently galvanized by the belief that the long-time Iraqi leader survived, has led to a renewed effort to track him. But fruitless manhunts in Afghanistan for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden serve as a caution that any expectation of greater success in finding the former Iraqi leader may be premature or unjustified. "Until we have absolute proof, you have to assume he's alive," Mr. Roberts said. He suggested that the upsurge of anti-American attacks -- more than 50 U.S. servicemen have been killed since major hostilities were declared over on May 1 -- reflects a belief among Hussein loyalists that it may be possible to restore his rule. "If we can prove that he is dead, a lot of the steam certainly will go out of that," Mr. Roberts said. He also seemed to confirm reports that Mr. Mahmud has been providing information to U.S. interrogators since his capture. "After we had the report from [Mr. Hussein's] personal secretary, the ace of diamonds, it's obvious that we increased our very aggressive effort to locate the Baath Party loyalists and the Saddam Hussein Fedayeen. I think they've captured about 600 of them," he said yesterday. Loose-knit groups launching sporadic but often deadly attacks against U.S. troops have dubbed their movement Awdah, Arabic for "return." In an interview yesterday in the Baghdad office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two main Kurdish political groups, spokesman Farhad Aziz blamed much of the trouble Iraq has had in recent months on "mafia" groups still loyal to Mr. Hussein. "These groups are still making problems for the whole system, and when they make things worse, people blame the Americans." The unrest in towns such as Fallujah, where U.S. troops see almost daily action against Iraqi irregulars, is the doing of Hussein loyalists, Mr. Aziz added. Many in the Iraqi capital say they won't feel Iraq has truly entered a new stage until they see the former dictator either captured or dead. "A lot of the problems we're having with the guerrilla warfare" is from "people coming in from outside of Iraq that certainly believe that Saddam may be alive and they might be able to restore him to power," Mr. Roberts said. Renewed speculation about the fate of Mr. Hussein dominated weekend news magazine shows in Washington. With a report from Mark MacKinnon in Iraq
Do Youz really believe US could fake such an important (if the whole affair really is THAT important) proof ? Me not. ttrader