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Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 869 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Central Intelligence Agency, Langley Virginia Department of Wayward Clients and Unsavoury Friends Status Report: January, 2004

To: George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence

From: Head, Office of Villains and Nefarious Crimes

Below is the updated report you asked us to prepare with comments, in light of Saddam's recent apprehension. Note that, with the exception of Warren Anderson, we have omitted specific US nationals (e.g. Kissinger) from the list.

There is some good news to report. In the careful management of opinion following Saddam's capture, we have already received a lot of assistance from our friends in the Fourth Estate. The British Tory historian John Keegan has helped to explain away our support for Saddam in the 1980s by declaring that "countries do not have moral characters. They only...

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