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SS 06 8 00 SSOH800 PAGE 01 LONDON 2757201 OF 06 2117161 0508 E 01 LONDON 21512 01 OF 06 2111161 0508 21/17442 JIBE RUMSFELD MET FOR 90 MINUTES WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT O EDO1 NEA-01 SSN-01 X-01 FAIRØ1 /005 AD SADDAM HUSSEIN DECEMBER 20. FOREIGN MINISTER FARIO AZIZ,INTERPRETER AND NOTETAIHER ATTENDED ACTION OS-00 ON IRAQI SIDE; EAGLETON AND PELLETREAU ON US BOTH IRAQI LEADERS WERE IN MIL ITARY DRESS WITH INFO OCT-00 COPY-01 ADS-00 SSO-OS /026 W 216141 2117 212 /43 PISTOLS ON HIPS. WHILE SECURITY WAS ELABORATE, BOTH APPEARED VIGOROUS AND CONFIDENT. IRAQI E 0 2116521 BEC 83 IV PHOTOGRAPHED SADDAN'S INITIAL GREETING OF X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON RUMSFELD AND PRESENTATION OF PRESIDENT REAGAN'S TO SECSTATE WA6IC IMMEDIATE1419 LETTER. RU1ISFELD OPENED BY CONVEYING PRESIDENT'S INFO AMEMBASSY GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING HIS PLEASURE AT BEING IN AMEIIBASSY ANO WITH HIS INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE AHEMBASSY EXCHANGE WITH FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIOUS EVENING. s AMEMBASSY US INI BAGHDAD SADOAM WELCOMED RUMSFELD AND SAIO HE HAD AMEIIBASSY CAIRO READ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND BEEN BRIEFED DV MEETING AMEPIBASSY HE SAID HE WAS PLEASED AMEMSASSY PARIS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER. THAT POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE AMEIIDASSY ROME HE WAS ALSO E USMISSION IJSUN NEW YORK WITH SERIOUSNESS AND FRANKNESS. PLEASED THAT PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE INDICATED DEEP AIIEIIBASSY X AMEMDASSY MANAMA AND SERIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF IMPLICATIONS OF CONFIRMATION OF / WAR AND ITS DANGERS. AMEMBASSY DOUA THIRDLY, HE WAS PLEASED THAT US WISHED TO SEE AMEMBASSY ARI OHABI FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IN ITS RELATIONS WITH IRAQ, I? AMEMBASSY IRAQ VALUED USELO INCLUDING EXCHANGE OF AMBASSADORS. s THIS POSITIVE APPRECIATION BY THE US OF THE NEED AMEMBASSY JIDDA AMCONSUL FOR A HIGH LEVEL OF RELATIONS. AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV AMEMBASSY FURTHER EXPANDING HIS THINKING ON US-IRAQI C YE T SECTION 01 OF 06 LONDON 21512 RELATIONS, SADDAM SAID IRAQ ALSO FELT THAT NOT BEING ABLE TO CONDUCT RELATIONS AT A FULL

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E 2. SUMMARY AND COMMENT: IN HIS 90-MINUTE MEETING X WITH RUMSFELD, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED OBVIOUS PLEASURE WITH PRESIDENT'S LETTER AND RUMSFELDS VISIT AND IN HIS REMARKS REMOVED WHATEVER OBSTACLES REMAINED IN THE WAY OF RESUMING DIP- s LOMATIC RELATIONS, BUT DID NOT TAKE THE DECISION TO DO SO. HE SAID ARABS SHOULD PRESS TO LEAVE AND ALSO THAT IRAQ FAVORED DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE RELATIONS BETWEEN PLO AND . RUMSFELD TOLD SADDAM liS ANO IRAQ HAD SHARED INTERESTS IN PREVENTING IRANIAN AND SYRIAN EX- PANSION. lIE SAIO US WAS URGING OTHER STATES TO CURTAIL ARMS SALES TO IRAN AND BELIEVED IT HAD SUCCESSFULLY CLOSED OFF US-CONTROLLED EXPORTS DY THIRD COUNIRIES TO IRAN. IN RESPONSE TO RUMSFELD'S INTEREST IN SEEING IRAQ INCREASE OIL EXPORTS, INCLUDING THROUGH POSSIBLE NEW PIPELINE ACROSS JORDAN TO AQABA, SADDAM SUGGESTED ISRAELI THREAT OF SUCH A LINE WAS MAJOR CONCERN 'S HNIGIkT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME ASSURANCES IS REGARD. OUR INITIAL ASSESSMENT IS THAT (SECURITY.TING MARKED POSITIVE MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT OF US-IRAQI REALTIONS AND WILL PROVE TO BE OF WIDER BENEFIT IO US POSTURE IN THE REGION. END SUMMARY ANO COMMENT.

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r \GE 01 LONDON 27572 02 OF 26211717Z 0510 5506802 PAGE 01 LONDON 2757202 OF 06 2117171 0510 S506802 21/17451 CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE BAATH AND THE IRAQI CON- :0 ED-OS NEA-21 55K-01 X-01 FAIR-01/205 A2 JWB MUNIST PARTY,IRAQ HAD NO COMPLEXES ABOUT ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USSR. IRAQ HAD DEVELOPED ACTION SS-00 RELATIONS WITH WEST ON THE SAME BASIS. FRANCE IN PARTICULAR UNDERSTOOD THE IRAQI VIEW. US INFO OCT-02 COPY-01 AIS-00 550-02 /026 W NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND AREA BETTER, RECEIVE IRAQI 216215 211727Z /53 VIEWS AND ANALYSIS IN CORRECT AND COMPREHENSIVE E O 2116521 DEC 83 MANNER SD IT DID NOT MAKE MISTAKES IN AREA NO X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON COUNTRY OR PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN TRUE INDEPENDENCE TO SECSTATE WA1DC IMMEDIATE1420 OR PROSPERITY IFITIS ISOLATED. INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN AMEPIRASSY BEIRUT 7. TURNING TO OTHER SUBJECTS, SADDAM NOTED AMEMBASSY CAIRO THAT HAD BOTH VERY RICH AND VERY s AMEIIBASSY DAMASCUS POOR COUNTRIES. WEST DID NOT WISH TO USINT BAGHDAD FALL UNDER SOVIET INFLUENCE. ARAB WORLD ALSO AMEMBASSY CAIRO WANTED TO AVOID COMING UNDER INFLUENCE OF EITHER AMEMBASSY ANKARA SUPER POWER. US, AS IRAQ UNDERSTOOD IT,WAS NOT AMEPIBASSY PARIS TRYING TO BRING ARABS INTO AMERICAN SPHERE BUT AMEMBASSY ROME ONLY TO KEEP THEM OUT OF SOVIET SPHERE SD THAT E USMISS ION USUN NEW YORK COMMERCIAL AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS COULD BE CARRIED AMEMBASSY KUWAIT X ON NORMALLY. MIDDLE EAST, FOR ITS PART, NEEDED AMEMBASSY MANAMA WESTERN EXPERTISE MOST WHEN IT WAS114 A STABLE AMEIIBASSY SITUATION AND FOCUSSED ON DEVELOPMENT. US, AMEMBASSY UM, FRANCE AND SIIOULD EXTEND MORE FINANCIAL I? A1IEMBASSY MUSCAT ASSISTANCE TO POOR STATES LIKE PORY TO DRAW IT s USELO RIYADH AWAY FROM SOVIET INFLUENCE. SAME WAS TRUE OF AMEPIBASSY J IODA STATES LIKE NORTH , AND . AMCONSUL JERUSALEM THIS WAS ALSO A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ARAB AMEIIBASSY TEL AVIV STATES THEMSELVES, SO THAT CLASS CONFLICT DID NOT AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD APPEAR IN WAYS THAT ALLOWED OPENINGS FOR FOREIGN INTERFERENCE. THIS WAS WHY IRAQ HAD CA'E T SECTION 02 OF 25 LONDON 27572

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DIPLOMATIC LEVEL WAS UNNATURAL. INTERESTINGLY, THE PRESIDENT USED A DIRECT QUOTE FROM RUMSFELD'S STATEMENT TO THE FOREIGN MINISTER THE PREVIOUS E EVENING WHEN HE SAIOHAVING A WHOLE GENERATION X OF IRAQIS ANO AMERICANS GROW UP WITHOUT UNDER- STANDING EACH OTHER HAD NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS 'J AND COULD LEAD TO MIX-UPS.' EVEN BEFORE THE WAR,IRAQI LEADERSHIP HAD EXAMINED CIRCUMSTANCES OF SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS AND POSSIBLE RESUMPTION, ¿ NOTING NEED TO CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE TIMING OF ANY DECISION. THE WAR HAD INTERVENED ANO ADDED COMPLICATION THAT DECISION ON RESUMPTION MIGHT BE MISUNDERSTOOD BY USG AND OTHERS ANO THE WRONG REASONS ATTACHED TO IT. HE HAD NOW MADE A PUBLIC STATEMENT POINTING OUT THAT RESUMPTION DID NOT DEPEND ON WAR CONTINUING OR NOT, BUT ONLY ON HAVING DECISION WHEN IT WAS MADE UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY. lAIEN THESE NATURAL CONDITIONS AND TRUE MOTIVES COULD BE ASSURED, IRAQ WOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY DECISION. IRAQ WAS PLEASED US UNDERSTOOD THIS AND LEFT TO IRAQ TO CHOOSE PROPER TIMING ANO CIRCUMSTANCES.

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INFO OCT-00 COPY-Ol ADS-00 SSO-OB /026 W DANGEROUS STAGE OF THE MILITARY SITUATION. IT 2162762117281 150 WAS NOW A QUESTION OF TIME. NEVERTHELESS, IRAQ E O 2116522 DEC 83 WAS NOT HAPPY TO HAVE THE WAR PROLONGED. X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON TO SECSTATE WASIDC IMMEDIATE 1421 10. RUMSFELD EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR OPPOR- INFO AMEIIBASSY AMMAN TUNITY TO EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH THE PRESIDENT. 9 AHEMBASSY BEIRUT WE HAD SOME AREAS OF HIGH SIMILARITY OF VIEW AMEMBASSY CAIRO AND OTHERS WHERE OUR PERCEPTIONS AND IDEAS s AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS DIFFERED. WHEN HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO UNDERTAKE IJSINT BAGHDAD THIS RESPONSIBILITY, RUNSFELD SAID, HE HAD AMEMBASSY CAIRO RECOGNIZED IMPORTANCE OF VISITING IRAQ. PRESI- AMEMBYISSY ANKARA DENT REAGAN AND SECRETARY SHULTZ HAD AGREED. AMEMBASSY PARIS AREA LEADERS, TOO,IN , JORDAN AND AMEMEASSY ROME HAD ENCOURAGED HIS VISIT. KING FAHO HAD WEL- E USIIISSION USAN NEW YORK COMED IT THE PREVIOUS DAY. SUCH CONTACTS WERE AMEMBASSY KUWAIT WITHIN OUR COUNTRIES' BASIC INTERESTS, WITHIN THE X AMEMBASSY MANAMA CONTEXT OF RESPECT FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF NATIONS. AMEMBASSY 00KV INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN NATIONS HAD RIGHT TO APIEMBASSY ABA EHABI UNDERTAKE ACTIVITIES WITH WHICH WE OR OTHERS DID 'i AMEMBASSY MUSCAT NOT AGREE, BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE AN OVERRIDING s USCIO RIYADH INTEREST IN STABILITY AND PEACE. IN AN INCREASIKGLY AMEMBASSY JIDDA INTERDEPENDENT WORLD, ALL PEOPLE WERE BETTER APICONSUL JERUSALEM SERVED TO THE EXTENT ThE IR MULTIFACETED RELATIONS AMEIIBASSY TEL AVIV WERE ORDERELY AND DEEP AND SPANNED POLITICAL, AMEIIBASSY ISLAMABAD ECONOMIC AND OTHER AREAS OF LIFE.

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PROPOSED AT THE 1980 ARAB SUMMIT N AMMAN A FUND FOR ARAB DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. FACT THAT IRAQ HAD PLEDGED ONLY 5500 MILLION OVER TEN E YEARS RATHER THAN 51 BILLION DID NOT INDICATE LACK OF INTEREST, ONLY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE WAR. AFTER X WAR, IRAQ WOULD FOLLOW UP.

8. ARAB WORLD CULTURAL TIES WERE DEEPER WITH 'i WEST THAN WITH COMMUNIST STATES, SAODAM s CONTINUED. WEST HAD LEGITIMATE INTERESTS IN THE ARAR REGION, BUT SOMETIMES BEHAVED ON BASIS OF INCOMPLETE OR FAULTY ANALYSIS. LEBANON AND IRAN/IRAQ WAR WERE CASES IN POINT. US HAD ORIGINALLY ACTED WITH INDIFFERENCE BOTH TOWARD SYRIAN INVASION OF LEBANON AND TOWARD THE GULF WAR, FOR WHICH IT DECIDED TO "LET THIS GROUP OF LUNATICS BASH EACH OTHER. WHAT, HE ASKED, WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THE STATES OF THE GULF AND ARABIAN PENINSULA IF RAD HAD NOT STOOD FAST? NO ONE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT OUT THE FIRE. ZIONISM WAS IN FACT ENCOURAGING IT TO BURN.

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INFO OCT-09 COPY-Ri ADS-00 SSO-OB /026 W A NOBLE HOPE, BUT THERE WAS NO REAL PROSPECT OF 216351 211738E /43 ITS IMMEDIATE ACHIEVEMENT. WHILE WE SOUGHT THAT E 0 2116521 DEC 83 TYPE OF GOAL,IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE MANAGE X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON OURSELVES SO AS TO KEEP SITUATION AS STABLE AS TO SECSTATE MSHOC IMMEDIATE 1422 POSSIBLE IN OUR TIME. INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN AMEMBASSY BEIRUT 14. REGARDING WAR WITH IRAN, RUMSFELD SAID, US AME1IBASSY CAIRO AGREED IT WAS NOT IN INTEREST OF REGION OR S AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS THE WEST FOR CONFLICT TO CREATE GREATER INSTABILITY IISINT BAGHDAD OR FOR OUTCOME TO BE ONE WHICH WEAKENED IRAQ'S AMEMUASSY CAIRO ROLE OR ENHANCED INTERESTS ANO AMBITIONS OF A1IEMBASSY ANKARA IRAN. WE THOUGHT CONFLICT SHOULD BE SETTLED IN AHEMOASSY PARIS A PEACEFUL MANNER WHICH DID NOT EXPAND IRAN'S AMEMBASSY ROME INTEREST AND PRESERVED SOVEREIGNTY OFIRAQ, WE E USMISSION USUN NEW YORK AGREED WITH IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC INTERACTION AMEMBASSY KUWAIT AND IRAQ'S ABILITY TO EXPORT ITS OIL. ONE X AMEMDASSY MANAMA AREA WHICH MADE SUCH INTERACTION DIFFICULT, AMEIIRASSY DOUA HOWEVER, WAS RISK OF ESCALATION IN THE GULF AND AMEMOASSY ABU DHABI POSSIBLE CLOSING OF GULF AS A RESULT. US IS I? AMEMBASSY MUSCAT ENCOURAGING OTHERS NOT TO SELL WEAPONS TO s USELO RIYADH IRAN AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. WE BELIEVE AMEMBASSY J IODA WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN CLOSING OFF EXPORTS AMCONSUL JERUSALEM OF US-CONTROLLED EQUIPMENT TO IRAN. SADDAM HUSSEIN AMEMIASSY TEL AVIV INTERJECTED THAT AND SYRIA HAD BEEN INTER- AMEMIASSY IYMABAD MEDIARIES ON SUCH DEALS, LIKE THE RECENT SPANISH / AMMUNITION SALE. RUMSFELD SAID THAT COUNTRIES //R" T SECTION 84 OF 06 LONDON 27572

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NATIONS, RUMSFELD SAID, WERE BETTER OFF TAKING LONG-SIGHTED VIEW AND US HAD TO TRY TO TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW. OUR UNDERSTANDING E OF THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCE IN THE WORLD AND THE REGION WAS SIMILAR TO IRAQ'S. WE SHARED X IRAQ'S INTEREST IN HAVING A LEBUNON EMERGE FREE OF FOREIGN FORCES SYRIAN,ISRAELI, LIBYAN, IRANIAN, ANO OTHERS. WE ALSO SHARED IRAQ'S VIEW OF NEED TO SUPPORT GOL AND ITS HOPE THAT CONFLICT S WILL SUBSIDE AND GOL WILL RE ABLE TO EXERCISE ITS SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

TO THE EXTENT THERE WAS EXCESSIVE FOCUS ON LEBANON, RUPiSFELD CONTINUED,IT COULD DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM NEED Ti ADDRESS MORE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS, SUCH AS SECURITY OF THE GULF AND CIRCUPI- STANCES OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. IN OUR JUDGMENT,IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR EGYPT AND IRAQ TO PLAY THEIR NATURAL ROLE N THE REGION SO THAT AMBITIONS OF OTHERS WERE NOT INFLATED,

IN THINKING ABOUT OUR BILATERAL RELATIONS, MTRELD SAIO, WE STRONGLY AGREED WITH PRESIDENT'S TEIIENT ABOUT EFFECTS OF GENERATIONS OF IRAQIS AMERICANS NOT HAVING KINDS OF INTERACTION AT WERE NATURAL AT ALL LEVELS. IF THIS SITUATION PERSISTED,IT WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO AREAS OF IGNOR- ANCE AND WARPED, UNCLEAR VIEWS THAT WERE IN NO ONE'S INTEREST. WE SHARED IRAQ'S VIEW THAT

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INFO ccï-øù 'COPY-Ol ADS-00 SSO-OB /026 W CONSENSUS, IRAQ HAD FELT FOR SOME TIPlE THERE 216441 211730Z /53 SHOULD BE TWO TYPES OF DECISIONS: CONSENSUS E O 2116522 DEC 83 DECISIONS WHERE POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY WILL BE X VII AIIEMBASSY LONDON BINDING ON ANO IMPLEMENTED BY ALL; AND DECISIONS TO SCOSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1423 TAKEN BY A STRONG MAJORITY WHICH WOULD BE BINDING INFO AMEIIBASSY AfINAN ON THOSE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THEM AND PUT OTHERS IN 'i AIIEMBASSY BEIRUT A POSITION NOT TO CAUSE HARM. REASON THAT AMEMBASSY CAIRO SYRIA AND LIBYA ARE ABLE TO THWART ARAB DECISIONS s AIIEMBUSSY DAMASCUS IS THAT EGYPT AND IRAQ ARE ABSENT FROM ARAB USINT BAGHDAD COUNCILS. OTHERWISE, DECISIONS WOULD BE TAKEN AMEMBASSY CAIRO IN A MORE HEALTHY WAY. AMEMBASSY ANKARA APIEMBASSY PARIS REGARDING ESCALATION OF THE WAR, SADDAM SAID, AMEIIBASSY ROME PATIENCE OF IRAQ SHOULD NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD. E USIIISSION USUN NEI.! YORK WHILE CONCERNED WITH SECURITY OF THE GULF, IRAQ AMEMBASSY KUWAIT COULD NOT DISPENSE WITH ITS NATIONAL INTEREST. X AMEPIBASSY MANAMA WITH IRAN EXPORTING OIL AND IRAQ NOT ABLE TO OD J AMEMBASSY DONA SO THROUGH THE GULF OR THE SYRIAN PIPELINE,IT AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI WAS NOT FOR IRAQ TO LOOK AFTER THE WORLD'S AMEMBASSY MUSCAT INTERESTS BEFORE ITS OWN. WHAT WAS NEEDED WAS TO s USELO RIYADH STOP THE WAR, OR PUT THE GULF IN A BALANCED SITUA- AMEMBASSY JIDDU TION FOR BOTH BELLIGERENTS. AlICONSUL JERUSALEM AHEMBASSY TEL AVIV RUMSFELO NOTED HE HAD DISCUSSED WITH FOREIGN AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD MINISTER IRAQ'S INTEREST IN PIPELINES THROUGH

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WHICH ACTED IN SUCH A MANNER WERE SHORTSIGHTED, LOOKING AT A SINGLE COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION WHILE THEIR MORE FUNDAMENTAL INTERESTS WERE BEING E HARMED. THEY WERE SOVEREIGN STATES WHO WOULD END UP DOING WHAT THEY PLEASED, BUT US WOULD X LET THEM ANOW HOW IT FELT.

RUMSFELD SAID THAT NATIONS WHICH EXPORT Y TERRORISM AND EXTREMISM OUGHT TO BE RECOGNIZED s AS SUCH. PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT TERRORISM HAS A HOME INIRAN, SYRIA AND LIBYA. THE SOVIET UNION HAS IN THE PAST AND IS TODAY CONTRIBUTING TO 11. TERRORISM ADVERSELY AFFECTS THE SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS. WE FEEL EXTREMELY STRONGLY ABOUT IT.

US, HUMSFELD SAID, SOUGHT TO PROMOTE A FAIR PEACE BETWEEN THE ARABS AND ISRAEL, ONE THAT RECOGNIZED THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. BEYOND THAT, RIJMSFELD COMMENTED, HE HAD SEEN EFFECT OF CONSENSUS APPROACH ON ARAR DECISION- MAKING, T TENDED TO ALLOW THE SPOILER TO ALTER 06.01510W OF THE MAJORITY IN A WAY HARMFUL TO FUTURE OF TRE REGION. LOOKING OUT FIVE TO YEARS,IT COULD RESULT IN PEOPLE BEING LESS _ALTHY AND ADVANCED THAN WOULD OTHERWISE BE THE CASE.

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SAUDI ARABIA AND POSSIBLY THROUGH JORDAN TO AQABA; AND SOME OF THE KINDS 0F ARRANGEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE NECESSARY AND DESIRABLE TO INCREASE E THE SECURITY OF SUCH AN ENTERPRISE. SADDAM RE- X SPONDED THAT N PAST IRAQ HAD NOT BEEN VERY INTERESTED IN THE JORDANIAN PIPELINE POSSIBILITY BECAUSE OF TVE THREAT THAT ISRAEL WOULD DISRUPT IT. NOW THAT US COMPANIES AND USC WERE INTER- Y ESTED, IRAQ WOULD RE-EXAMINE IT. THERE MIGHT BE s A CONNECTION BETWEEN US AND IRAQI INTERESTS,IF US COULD GIVE IRAQ A FEELING OF STRENGTH AND ASSURANCE THAT WOULD ALLOW IT TO TAKE THE APPROPRIATE DECISION. IN FACT, BOTH PIPELINES WERE IMPORTANT ANO IRAQ WANTED TO DEVELOP BOTH. RUMSFELD AGREED THAT ONE DID NOT WANT TO BE DEPENDENT ON ONLY ONE ROUTE. HE SAID HE ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE NEED FOR ARRANGEMENTS THAT WOULD MAKE A PIPELINE THROUGH JORDAN MORE LOGICAL.

20. RUMSFELD SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO HEAR SAODAM'S COMMENT THATIT WAS INCUMBENT ON THE ARAB NATIONS TO EXERT PRESSURE ON SYRIA TO WITHDRAW FROM LEBANON. SOME PRESSURE WAS ING BROUGHT TO BEAR FROM THE OUTSIDE BUT MOST EFFLtT\'AYRtOGURE WOULD BE FROM THIN THE URHE WORLD. MIEN ONE ARAB COUNTRY INWAOED ANOTHER, KILLED PALESTINIANS IN , EXPORTED TERRORISM AND BEHAVED IN K MANNER INCON- SISTENT WITH THE BEST HOPES OF THE OVERWHELMING

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