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Tuesday, September 10, 2002
U.S. pushes to stop Hussein
Report: Iraq has capabilities, lacks material for nuclear bMMf
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I ONDON (AP) — Iraq tried to maintain and p mrtnth - P .- the re p ltl! .. (h l ^bile Iraq has sir
LONDON (AP) — Iraq
could build a nuclear bomb in a
few months if it obtained
radioactive material, and its
arsenal contains powerful
chemical and biological
weapons that can be quickly
mass produced, according to a
report Monday.
Developing weapons ot
mass destruction is one of
Iraq’s top priorities, and
Saddam Hussein devotes enor
mous resources to such
weapons, the report by the
International Institute tor
Strategic Studies said.
“War, sanctions and inspec
tions have reversed and retard
ed, but not eliminated, Iraq’s
nuclear, biological and chemi
cal weapons and long-range
missile capacity, nor removed
Baghdad’s enduring interest in
developing these capabilities,”
said the institute’s director John
Chipman.
Left unhindered, it “seems
likely that the current Iraqi
regime will eventually achieve
its objectives,” the report said.
State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher
said the report jibed with U.S.
information, saying that when
inspectors left in 1998 it was
known that not all Iraq’s bio
logical and chemical weapons
stocks had been destroyed.
“I think we have every bit of
evidence to conclude that Iraq
had programs, they were par
tially destroyed, and they’ve
them since the inspectors were
gone,” he said in Washington.
The report, compiled by a
range of experts, focused par
ticular concern on Iraq s efforts
to develop nuclear weapons. It
expressed concern that a
nuclear weapon, if developed,
could fall into the hands of ter
rorists.
Iraq retains
significant biological
and chemical
weapons and, more
importantly, the
ability to quickly
produce more
stocks.
— International Institute for
Strategic Studies repxxt
Although Baghdad appears
several years away, at least,
from making its own nuclear or
fissile material for a bomb, it
could get the material from a
foreign source and construct a
weapon quickly, the repiort said.
“If. somehow, Iraq were
able to acquire sufficient
nuclear material from foreign
sources, it could probably pro
duce nuclear weapons on short
>ut
months,” the report satti
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that Iraq has been able t
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Afghan citizens decry American attach
KAKARAK, Afghanistan (AP) — The
garden where Ahmed Shah’s mother,
father and relatives were killed has been
left to grow wild. The gaping rocket holes
remain in the roof. And Shah’s anger still
runs deep over the U.S. air attack that
Afghans say killed dozens at a wedding
party at his home.
A U.S. investigative report, released
Friday by the U.S. Central Command,
said the July 1 airstrike was justified
because American planes had come under
fire. That finding, however, has only
stoked the resentment and fury over an
attack that Afghan officials say killed 48
people and wounded 117.
“America has to make excuses for this
horrible attack. Soon after the bombing,
American troops seized this area. They
searched all our homes, but they found
nothing.” said Shah, 25, who lost his par
ents and 23 other relatives in the bombing.
“They have killed w'omen and chil
dren. Shouldn’t the Americans he held
accountable and responsible by their own
law, if not ours?” he asked.
The attack, which followed other mis
directed U.S. operations in southern
Afghanistan, strained relations between
the U.S. military and President Hamid
Karzai’s government. Following the raid,
Karzai said “all necessary measures”
must be taken to avoid civilian casualties
and urged closer coordination between
U.S. and Afghan forces.
In its report, the U.S. military
acknowledged civilian deaths but con
cluded that the AC-130 gunship launched
the attack against five villages in Uruzgan
province only after coming under fire
from the ground.
The U.S. investigation confirmed >4
dead and about 50 wounded, the report
said.
“While the coalition regrets the loss of
innocent lives, the responsibility for that
loss rests with those that knowingly
directed hostile fire at coalition forces."
the report said.
It said operators of those weapons bore
responsibility because they “elected to
place them in civilian communities and
elected to fire them at coalition forces”
when they knew civilians were present.
Abdul Rahim, district chief of Deh
Rawood. condemned the report’s findings
as false
“America is a liar. Had there been any
shooting from this area, why have they
not seized arms and anti-aircraft guns?
They searched all the houses, hut not a
single weapon was found. Not a single
important suspect was caught,” he said.
The report said heavy weapons had
been fired at American aircraft in the days
and weeks before the raid. However, U.S.
investigators found no evidence of anti
aircraft weapons at the two compounds
hit, the report acknowledged.
“They should not use al-Qaida and
Taliban as an excuse to kill the innocent. I
myself stood shoulder to shoulder with
Hamid Karzai at Tarin Kot,” he said,
referring to his service alongside
Afghanistan’s president during last year’s
fighting against the Taliban. "We pushed
back laliban and al-Qaida together. If
there are al-Qaida, it would be us who
fight them first.”
Afghan villagers said most of those
killed were women and children at the
home of Shah s father, Mohammed
Sherd. Hundreds had g
celebrate the upcoming
Shah’s brother. Abdu
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right there. My mother too. My
house was full of blood. They even
our cow,” she said, pointing lo 3
calf. "Its mother died, just like nun-
The lingering sense of injustic
deep here in this broad green valle,
with corn and melon fields. Ihe' 1 "
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they are angry at what they see as
relative impunity in the deadly att3'
“Almost every home here made
rifice," said Abdul Kadir, JO-
someone was injured or killed thath
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area.
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