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Fred, in 2005 I am going to call you Wiki ! And another journalist friend (Stacey) told me that they were mulling over relocating the displaced Jews to Alaska? Oddly, post 9/11 we used to read a lot of articles on the role played by the west in bring this 'evil man' Sadaam to power and once the NYT had a small article about how the CIA had supplied satellite imagery to Sadaam showing the movements of the Iranian troops as they approached and probably were poised to take over the small coast that Iraq possesses. For Iraq, losing that would have spelt doom or so the article said. The images gave him the exact location of the troops and then he gassed them and of course they retreated. Nowadays I hardly ever read any analysis about how Saddam came to power, how other Iraqi leaders, unappetizing/unattractive to a West were overthrown and of course what happened in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation. In the latter, I read (also in the NYT) that the French who understand the people of its colonies well, encouraged the Afghanis to kill Russians in the name do God because the Russians as Communists were not supposed to believe in one. What happened to articles such as these? Maybe I should be looking in Wikipedia?!!! Now I want to make one of those smileys but I do not know how to! Helga > > Tim posted a very interesting backgrounder on this issue. > > Since I needed to educate myself about a subject we hardly hear the intricacies > of in this part of the globe, no prizes for guessing (specially for you, Helga) > which was the next URL-destination. Right, it was http://en.wikipedia.org > >