DEBKAfile


Saturday, October 12, 2002
 

HEADLINES

DEBKAfile’s Gulf Sources report:
Saddam Calls Emergency Leadership Meeting
Saturday Morning in Response to US Congressional
War Mandate for Bush
Emergency Parliamentary Session Follows in Baghdad Saturday Afternoon
500 Iraqi Muslim Clerics Call on Muslims Everywhere to
”Burn Earth under Feet” of US If It Attacks Iraq
Pentagon Orders America’s V Corps, First Marines
Expeditionary Force to Deploy HQ Staff in Gulf, to
Join Navy, Air Force Command Elements
Smallpox Vaccinations for Half Million Servicemen
Sharon Leaves for White House Talks in
Washington Monday
Suicide Bombing Suspected in Big Explosion That
Killed Seven, Injured 80, in Packed Finnish
Shopping Mall Friday Night  
Kuwait Arrests al Qaeda Cell of 26 Plotting to Attack
Kuwaiti and US Targets after Killing One US Marine
French Investigators Find TNT Traces in Gutted Oil Tanker Limburg,
Military Escorts for French Middle East Shipping Considered
US Central Forces Commander Franks to Visit Yemen
Alert Guard at Tel Aviv Seafront Tayelet Café
Friday Night Chased Palestinian Bomb-Belted
Terrorist, Nabbed Him with Help of Nearby
US Embassy Guards