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June I 1. 2002 THE BATTAUO Rumsfeld says Iraqis ‘lying’ about its weapons of mass destruction KUWAIT (AP) — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday dismissed claims by the Iraqi government that it has no nuclear, chemical or biologi cal weapons and is making no effort to acquire them. “They are lying,” he told a news conference at Kuwait’s international airport before fly ing to Bahrain. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad issued a statement Sunday asserting the govern ment of Saddam Hussein has neither made nor possessed weapons of mass destruction in more than a decade. “Iraq has said on many occasions that it is not con cerned with entering the mass destruction weapons club. ... We left it in 1991,” the official statement said. Rumsfeld said the Iraqi claim cannot be trusted. “It is false, not true, inaccu rate and typical,” the defense secretary said, adding that Iraq remains a destabilizing factor in the Gulf region. “They have had an active program to develop nuclear weapons,” Rumsfeld said. “It's also clear they are actively developing biological weapons” and used chemical weapons against their own Kurdish popu lation in the 1980s. Vice President Dick Cheney cited that same threat in making the case for a pro-active U.S. stance against terrorism. President Bush plans to formal ize the “strike-first” policy when he presents his first national security strategy to Congress later this year. U.S. officials are especially concerned by “any possible linkup” between Saddam’s gov ernment and terrorist networks, Cheney said, given Saddam’s propensity for using chemical weapons. A policy of contain ment is not effective when “unbalanced dictators” are will ing to secretly supply terror groups with such weapons. “He used them in his war against Iran, and he’s used them against his own people,” Cheney said in a speech to the International Democrat Union, a group of mostly con servative offi cials from sever al countries. “We have a responsibility to answer this growing peril. ... Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of ter rorists would expose the civi lized world to the worst of all They have had an active program to develop nuclear weapons. It s also clear they are actively developing biological weapons. discussed “the way ahead in the global war on terrorism but not potential military actions against Iraq. A reporter asked Rumsfeld what he thought of Iraq's recent pledge to respect Kuwait’s sov ereignty and to restore full rela tions with the Kuwaiti govern ment. He said that accepting Iraq’s word of good intentions toward Kuwait “would be like the lion inviting the chicken to embrace.” “What good, in the past, have Iraqi representa tions of goodwill to its neighbors been? Precious little,” he said. “Should hope spring eternal? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the risks.” Rumsfeld also said he invited Kuwaiti government rep- to meet with a — Donald H. Rumsfeld Defense Secretary possible horrors, and we will not allow it.” Rumsfeld met Monday with senior Kuwaiti government offi cials, including Defense Minister Sheik Jabir al- Mubarak. He said they dis cussed Iraqi violations of the United Nations resolutions that Baghdad agreed to live up to as a condition of ending the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He said they resentatives dozen Kuwaitis who are among the more than 300 Taliban or al- Qaida fighters captured in Afghanistan and held prisoner at a U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Rumsfeld told reporters the Kuwaitis’ meeting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would have two purposes: to glean additional intelligence from the prisoners and to determine “if there is any law enforcement interest” in them. It marked the first time Rumsfeld has publicly Former mafia boss dies throat cancer in prison of GOTTI NEW YORK (AP) — John Gotti, who swaggered, schemed and murdered his way to the pinnacle of organized crime in America only to be toppled by secret FBI tapes and a turncoat mobster’s testimony, died at a prison hospital Monday. He was 61. The U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., announced the death of the former Mafia boss. Gotti had suf fered from throat cancer and had been moved to the prison hospital from the maximum-security federal prison in Marion, Ill. Once known as the “Dapper Don” for his fine double-breasted suits and confident bearing, and as the “Teflon Don” after a series of acquittals, Gotti was sentenced to life in 1992 for racketeer ing and six killings. His victims included “Big Paul” Castellano, whom he succeeded as boss of New York’s Gambino crime family in 1985. Gotti reigned for six years as the nation’s most high-profile mobster, passing himself off as a plumbing supply salesman while strutting about in $2,000 Brioni suits and sneering at law enforcers who kept trying to put him behind bars. Some crime chroniclers called him the most important gangster since A1 Capone, a comparison Gotti did not discourage. When Gotti finally was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn, James Fox, the FBI agent in charge in New York, declared: “The Teflon is gone. The don is covered with Velcro.” In the end, Gotti’s leadership of the Gambinos led to the loss of power and money for the crime family, because his high profile attracted so much attention from prosecutors. His undoing was Salvatore “Sammy Bull” Gravano, his onetime closest confidant and under boss who turned government witness. When Gotti moved to take over the Gambinos, they were the biggest and most pow erful of the city’s five Mafia families, with 300- plus “made” members, 2,000 “associates” and fingers in every pie, including the garment dis trict, garbage hauling, construction, extortion and loan sharking. He took charge by murdering Castellano, who had angered Gotti and others with, among other things, his ban on drug trafficking. By some accounts, Gotti feared Castellano was plot ting to eliminate him, so he carried out a pre emptive strike. Wildfire forces 40,000 to evacuate DENVER (AP) — A wind- driven wildfire closing in fast on Denver prompted authorities to order the evacuation of up to 40,000 people Monday from their homes along the south western edge of the metropoli tan area. The 61,000-acre fire roared to within 10 miles of residential neighborhoods, spreading toward Denver at about a mile an hour. Firefighters were pulled off the lines in front of the fire because it was too dangerous. “They just cannot see the front of this fire because of the smoke,” said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Barb Masinton. Homes near Roxborough State Park were ordered evac uated. "It was our lifelong dream to live up here,” said evacuee Carol Simone, whose home is about 30 miles south of Denver. “It isn’t about the house, it's the woods and the environment. If that’s destroyed I’m going back to Florida.” The fire was started by an illegal campfire Saturday in the Pike National Forest 55 miles southwest of Denver and had doubled in size since Sunday. Campfires have been banned in national forests and most counties because of severe drought. acknowledged the national! of any Arabs held Guantanamo Bay and specify how many of any sped! nationality are imprisoned. On Sunday at Kuwaii Camp Doha, a desert encanr ment 35 miles from the h border, Rumsfeld told Amenc. troops that state sponsors! rorism must be punished. Without mentioning Iraqk name, Rumsfeld said the diers are on the front lin against a dangerous foe. “You are the people «1 stand between freedom andfe; between our people and a da gerous adversary that cannot' appeased, cannot be ignoreda cannot be allowed to win,' told about 1 ,(XX) troops asse: bled in an air-conditioned gr nasium on a 110-degree afe noon Sunday. Rumsfeld left little doubi was aiming his words at In which he often says is anr nations that support internal] al terrorist groups and help them gain access weapons of mass destruction || “iiii These states, he said, need to be stopped so that b cannot threaten or hold people hostage to blackmaili terror.” He again alluded to Iraqi describing the ultimate goal] President Bush’s war on terro “It will not end until sponsors of terror are madel understand that abetting tem’ ism is unacceptable and» have deadly consequences! the regimes that do Rumsfeld said. NEWS IN BRIEF Weapon used to | murder Selena destroyed CORPUS CHRIST1, Texas (A : — The weapon used to 1 Tejano singing star Selena w| destroyed on Monday unden judge's orders, desp protests from historians wi said the revolver was a prittj less piece of Mexicr American history. The .38-caliber Taui« revolver was run througli shredding saw and w scheduled to be thrown if the Corpus Christi Baj Selena, 23, was killed bytf gun seven years ago, just she was on the verge of crot ing over to the English-la r guage market. The destruction of t weapon was bemoaned ^ some who said it should- kept for posterity. Six dead when SUV smashes into parked truck MESQUITE, Texas (AP) ' A Fort Worth woman and fi ve: her young children returning from a family reunion died Monday when the family 5 Chevrolet Suburban smashf' into an 18-wheeler parked alongside Interstate 20. Israel Lane Joubert, 35, woman's husband and fat : of the children, was driving the SUV and is in critical condition. He's expected to survive, according to Mesquite Fire Department spokesman Mark Noble. Quizno's subs IN NORTHGATE I 10 COLLEGE MAIN 846-7000 $ . WE ACCEPT ★ AGGIE BUCKS! Opens WELCOME I I am-8pm Acs?? THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 1.00 OFF ANY SUB] Offer good at our Northgate and Bryan location. 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