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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.
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