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Intelligence agencies have also picked up conversations between Wahhabi Muslims from Saudi Arabia and Iraqi Baathists loyal to Mr. Hussein. That has surprised the officials, because the Wahhabis are highly conservative fundamentalist Sunni Muslims, while the Baathists are moderate Sunnis who until recent years encouraged secularism.
"These are people who normally want to kill each other," said one official.
As alert reader rb noted a few days back, Cheney's use of the passive voice is quite telling:
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"Iraq has become the central front in the war on terror," Mr. Cheney said in an address at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative institution here. "Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that the United States accepted now more than two years ago. Sept. 11, 2001, changed everything for this country."