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LONDON (AP) — Iraq
poses an increasing threat that
must be met, the defense chiefs
of the United States and Britain
said Wednesday, showing grow
ing impatience with Saddam
Hussein.
“We know that Saddam
Hussein’s regime in Iraq has had
a sizable appetite for weapons of
mass destruction” and is finding
ways to acquire the ingredients.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
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.
Rumsfeld and Hoon both
expressed their governments’
hope for a lowering of tensions
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between nuclear rivals India and
Pakistan. Rumsfeld’s stop in
London was the first on a 10-
day journey that is to take him
to the Indian and Pakistani cap
itals next week.
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
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We know that
Saddam Husseins
regime in Iraq has
had a sizable appetite
for weapons of mass
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“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
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panying him and m
aboard an Air Force!je
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would suggest a new, md -Eh. In c
risome Iraqi attitude. Hoc
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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
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long as United Nations
tors are not allowed to
monitor Iraq’s military fa, preme C
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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