Provo Daily Herald. Advanced Search. Previous Issue. Pages 3 of 36 Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. Page 6. Page 7. Page 8. Page 9. Page The Iraqi military officials were dealing with fee Joint Action Committee, an alliance cf Kurdish, Sun-n- i, Shiite and other Iraqi dissidents formed in Beirut, fee report said. It said the groups put aside their D-R- I. Tne report, issued Thursday, said fee would-b- e Iraqi defectors "contemplated bringing possibly decisive force to fee side cf fee rebels" but first wanted a signal that the United States would be supportive.
It attributed the information to ap- proached as Iraqi dissident group M5 exile with an offer cf coopers-tio- n, says a Senate Foreign Rela-ticCommstse staff report. But the planned defection and possibly a coup attempt against Saddam was shelved because the United States failed to support it!
Peter os unnamed Kurdish and Arab opposition leaders. He was the grand marshal. President Bush took umbrage at Woodward's portrayal of Gen. Colin PoweU. While Bush denounced the book's he did not call it inaccurate. He said the author was trying to drive a wedge between him and Powell. Woodward is an editor of The Washington Post who.
Tne book, like his five others, uses a controversial technique: quoting or paraphrasing private, sensitive conversations without saying how he knows who said what.
The author writes that he conducted interviews, some of them within days of the events he describes. Thomas W. Kelly as despairing. If we're ranking of taking on the Iraqis in any way, I want to voice a note of caution. The Com- "It was a guess. I don't have any cost estimates, but if they had said twice what they said or half that, it would have been the same to me. The number of unemployed and per- the job loss number can differ because they are derived from different surveys.
