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Saddam Hussein and Sons. 

No one is mentioning them much these days and speculation on their 
whereabouts has died down. DEBKAfile reports exclusively from its intelligence sources 
that Saddam Hussein and Qusay have wound up in Libya at a location north of 
Tripoli, while Uday Hussein has made his home base in the Belarussian capital of 
Minsk, from which he makes trips to the Middle East and Africa. 

Recent reports that Uday is negotiating surrender terms with the Americans 
from a hideout in Iraq are designed to lure him into giving himself up. 

Saddam’s presence in Libya is significant in two ways: 

1. The deposed Iraqi ruler is busy. From a safe distance, he is orchestrating 
almost daily clashes between US forces and Baathists in different parts of 
Iraq – and they are costing the lives of American troops. He too is encouraged 
by the ongoing Washington-Tehran diplomatic track and sees how it can work to 
his advantage. The deal over Iraq’s Shiites, 55 percent of the population, will 
intensify the community’s innate xenophobia. They may be coreligionists of 
the rulers of Tehran, but Iraqi Shiites are averse to foreign rule, be it 
Iranian or American, and aspire to the same model of self-government gained by the 
Kurds of northern Iraq. This objective does not figure in either the US or the 
Iranian game plan, so when the American forces announced last week that 
Kurdish tribal militias would be permitted to keep their weapons, but not the 
Shiites, they sowed the seeds of future civil discord in Iraq. 

Saddam’s hopes rest on the prospects of igniting a civil war among Iraq’s 
Shiites, Kurds, Sunnis and the smaller ethnic minorities. He has concluded that 
America does not have enough troops in Iraq to put down any major internal 
flare-up. 

2. The exiled Iraqi ruler pays the wages of 400 Iraqi scientists to stay in 
Libya and work in the Libyan-Egyptian nuclear industry and their development of 
chemical and biological weapons. 

That menace embodied in that fact hardly needs spelling out. 

Like all three of these parties, Washington is not above playing a double or 
triple game; it is familiar with the rules and is aware of the dangers of 
falling from this high trapeze without a safety net. However, by playing this 
high-risk game with terrorists, as though they are all on a level playing field, 
the Americans are awarding extra points to Arafat, bin Laden and Saddam, the 
last players to fight according to any rules of fair play.


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