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: J 8 Thursday, June 6, 2002 INTERNATlol THE BATTij Quizno's SUBS IN NORTHGATE I IO COLLEGE MAIN 846-7000 •k WE ACCEPT* AGGIE BUCKS! HOVIOV &GSU WELCOME ACS!! 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Rumsfeld said. “We know the borders into that country are quite porous,” he added, allowing Iraq to import technologies with appli cations in both civilian and mil itary industries as well as illicit materials. “There is not a doubt in the world that with every month that goes by their programs mature,” he said. Iraq denies it has or is devel oping any weapons of mass destruction, but it has refused to allow the international inspec tions that it agreed to accept as a condition of ending the 1991 Gulf War. Rumsfeld would not discuss, the possibility of U.S. military action to topple Saddam’s gov ernment, saying that was a mat ter for President Bush to decide. He spoke at a joint news confer ence with British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon after meetings to discuss Iraq and other issues. 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For months the Bush admin istration has been publicly mak ing the case for taking strong action — possibly military — against Iraq, but allied nations have been slow to offer support. In Washington on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said his fellow Democrats support a push to unseat Saddam. “The question is when and how and under what circumstances,” Daschle said. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he had cau tioned Bush that any major attack would require a U.S. Democratic leader Dick Gephardt volunteered his sup port if the administration resort ed to force. “I share President Bush’s resolve to confront this menace head-on,” he said. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer declined to comment on the Democrats’ remarks, beyond reit erating that the administration sup ports a “regime change” in Iraq. On Tuesday, Bush said that ros I We know that Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq has had a sizable appetite for weapons of mass destruction. — Donald Rumsfeld U.S. Defense Secretary “one option, of course, is the military option.” The president added, how ever, he had no plans to attack. Hoon described the Iraqi military threat as increasing in recent weeks. Asked in a later inter- elaborate, Hoon said defenses are more trying to shoot fly” zones more than ago, Iraq has considered violation of its sovereign has vowed to shoot planes. 1 loon said that imme; after the Sept. 11 attacks United States there \ marked decline in Iraqi ing of allied pilots. “We judged that the in Iraq seemed to have message — that militan would follow if they w very careful,” Hooriisaia interview witli icpon'ersf^ panying him and m aboard an Air Force!je London to Brussels, l ^ e c The recent aggres\i|P lee ° would suggest a new, md -Eh. In c risome Iraqi attitude. Hoc “Clearly they are fee Americ the Si little more confident tha irt must have in the recent past.' h Hoon said the Unitedive and Britain “can only bel orism ir presence for two to five years, to keep battling factions away from each other. “I reminded him, there’s a reason why your father stopped and didn’t go to Baghdad. It wasn’t that he wasn’t able to. He wasn't prepared to stay for five years,” Biden said after meeting with Bush at the White House. A day earlier. House view to Iraq’s air aggressively down the U.S. and British pilots who regularly fly combat air patrols over northern and south ern Iraq. Pilots have reported attacks in recent week by Iraqi anti-air craft artillery and surface-to-air missiles. The allied planes have responded by bombing various elements of Iraq’s air defense system. Since the start of U.S. and British enforcement of the “no iifginia vs iVirgini: suspicious” of how far Sim has progressed in deve weapons of mass destine: In the c< long as United Nations tors are not allowed to monitor Iraq’s military fa, preme C He said the best am|uck dow the problem is to return inspectors, with Iraqi com freely monitor military fac suspected of deve nuclear, chemical or bioii weapon. Rumsfeld has doubt on that approach, ing that previous efforts monitoring accomplished because of Iraqi deni deception. India calls for joint monitorin of Kashmir region with Pakista state 1 nt dor of cro NEW DELHI, India (AP) — India made a con ciliatory gesture to Pakistan on Wednesday, call ing for joint monitoring of their disputed Kashmir frontier — a proposal that Pakistan played down as old and unlikely to work. Even as the United States and Britain sent top officials to pressure the nuclear-armed rivals, they stepped up warnings asking their own citizens to leave. In phone calls to Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, President Bush appealed to lead ers of both nations to “choose the path of diplo macy.” “We want to move away from a path of con frontation to a path of cooperation,” Vajpayee said earlier Wednesday, before leaving Kazakhstan, where he attended an Asian security conference along with Musharraf Vajpayee said India and Pakistan should work together to patrol the border and verify that Islamic militants were no longer crossing into Indian-controlled Kashmir to launch attacks against Indian security forces and Kashmiris. It was the first indication in the six-month standoff that India might cooperate with Pakistan to end the Kashmir insurgency and solve the dis pute that dates to independence from Britain in 1947. Kashmir has been the flashpoint in two of the three wars between the South Asian rivals. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry responded that if the Indian proposal were serious, it should be con veyed formally. Such proposals could be discussed “as soon as ite’s 50-) bannin rning in court i law cri rticular i ying a c< The firs ipreme C ue of cr 192, whe iul. Mini inned th( in orde ghten o the ruli ourts in rsey anc tuck do\ ie\t state ;dgment: their dt Howe\ order ould b< eech ir fire’ in India signifies a willingness to resume aco hensive dialogue with Pakistan,” the ministn in a statement. ||ll L “The proposal is not new,” the ministn J oric ‘ a ’ ' “Given the state of Pakistan-India relatij'd ^ir mechanisms for joint patrolling are unlike®* 6 with work.” lirginia < The ministry noted that a small U.N. mopupreme ing force already had a mandate to patrol the frontation line in Kashmir and that it “mal *t is ir expanded to perform this role more effective|) recogr India has previously ruled this out, how and Vajpayee said it was not necessary to third country check for infiltration — ^ Musharraf suggested Tuesday. The international community has been serfd speec bling to avert a potential fourth war betweenInjtute thos and Pakistan as fears of a nuclear confront have escalated. Some one million Indian Pakistani soldiers have been posted along 1,800-mile frontier since December. Musharraf suggested on Wednesday that hi ities could ease with upcoming visits by Defi Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Def Secretary of State Richard Armitage. In London, Rumsfeld said Vajpayee | Musharraf each recognize that war is the'* option and so they “may very well be lookinc| ways to tamp things down rather than see escalate.” Rumsfeld added that “there’s no question Kashmir crisis has distracted Pakistan from ing the United States finish the war againsi Qaida in neighboring Afghanistan. The A as argu e consi the burn Prosecutors hope to case in trial of slain HYDERABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday they hoped to wrap up their case this week against four Islamic militants charged in the slaying of Daniel Pearl, after deciding to drop the Wall Street Journal reporter’s widow as a witness. Chief Prosecutor Raja Quereshi said he decided not to pursue Mariane Pearl’s testimony after her attorney filed a state ment in court saying she would be unable to travel to London or Pakistan for medical reasons. Her attorney did not elaborate on her condition. Pearl, 38, gave birth to her first child, Adam, a week ago in Paris, where the French free-lance journalist lives. She eailier said she was willing to testify as long as her doctors approved the trip. The prosecution has been try ing to speed up the case, dropping 13 other witnesses last month because of potential legal compli cations arising from the discov ery of a dismembered body May 17 in Karachi believed to be Daniel Pearl’s. “With God willing and luck on my side, we shall conclude our case in two days,” Quereshi said. The trial, which began April 22, resumes Thursday, with the prosecution examining its final witness, police officer Hamid Ullah Memon. The four Islamic radicals, including suspected mastermind Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, charged with Pearl’s kidnapping and murder have all pleaded innocent. Quereshi said Wednesday that not having Mariane Pearl as a witness “would neither hurt nor help the prosecution case at this time.” She would have testified only that she made the initial criminal complaint and showed wrap up reporter n Tex Any i for tf pirit is SHoweve in the U because federal 1 Soco moment popular Sadly tl NCAA Ever tional si it could an infar IX was women e-mails she received shown her husband in captN 11 Quereshi said, adding that tXj the complaint and the e-m al | are already in the court recor Daniel Pearl. Ihe.*>•«£ South Asia bureau chief, ... ' peared from the port city j 1 ' Karachi on Jan. 23 while work : P y co on a story about Pakistani nnij accordi tants. 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