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India, Pakistan test missiles
Missile tested
in India
By Nirmala George
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI, India — India
test-fired a short-range missile
capable of carrying a nuclear
weapon on Wednesday, and
neighbor Pakistan immediately
announced it had tested a similar
missile.
The nuclear-armed rivals
often conduct such tit-for-tat
tests of missiles capable of
reaching parts of the other’s ter
ritory.
The launches came as India
repeated assertions that Pakistan
was to blame for the recent mas
sacre of 24 Hindus in Kashmir,
the Himalayan province claimed
by both South Asian rivals.
With the United States and
the international community
consumed by the war in Iraq,
there are fears the nuclear
rivals might carry out provoca
tions so as to keep some of the
world’s attention on their dis
pute over Kashmir.
Pakistan complained that
India didn’t notify it in advance
of its test.
“The common practice is for
each country to inform the other
before conducting a test, but this
time we were surprised,” said
Aziz Ahmed Khan, Pakistan’s
foreign ministry spokesman.
India successfully fired a
Prithvi missile from its
Chandipur testing range in Orissa
state. The missile has a range of
95 miles. Baljit Singh Menon, a
defense ministry spokesman, said
the test was routine.
Pakistan tested one of its
Abdali missiles, which can carry
both nuclear and conventional
warheads and has a range of less
than 132 miles. Khan would not
say where the missile test was
conducted, or whether it occurred
before or after the Indian test.
“Pakistan has also test-fired
a missile today, but we informed
India about it,” Khan said.
Tensions have increased
since the massacre Monday in
the village of Nadimarg. The
victims, who included two chil
dren and 11 women, were
upper-caste Hindus known as
Kashmiri Pandits. A group of
anned men dragged them out of
their homes and shot them at
close range, police and witness
es said.
Police said they believed the
gunmen were Islamic militants,
who have been fighting for
Kashmir’s independence from
India since 1989.
“The pattern, methodology
and the nature of targets of these
acts of terror are all too familiar
and therefore the culpability of
Pakistan is all too clear,” said
Navtej Sarna, a spokesman for
India’s foreign ministry.
New Delhi has long accused
Pakistan of supporting the
Islamic militants. Pakistan
insists it does not provide fund
ing or weapons.
The two countries came to
the brink of war after similar
India test fired a nuclear capable
surface-to-surface missile called
Prithvi Wednesday from its
testing ranges in eastern India.
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attacks a year ago. Both sides
rushed hundreds of thousands of
troops to their border, raising fear
of a nuclear exchange, before
international mediation defused
the conflict.
More than 61,000 people
have been killed in the insur
gency. The countries have
fought three wars since they
gained independence from
Britain in 1947.
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“Little or no training is
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its weekly intelligence bulletin
to about 18,000 law enforce
ment agencies.
The bulletin provides no
details of a specific threat or
possible location of an attack. It
does say that terrorists could
take advantage of building ven
tilation systems, air intakes or
enclosed areas to disperse toxic
chemical gas.
Law enforcement officials
previously have warned that al-
Qaida or other terrorist groups
might target subways and tar
gets such as hotels and office
buildings rather than heavily
guarded government installa
tions.
In addition, material collect
ed in Pakistan after the March 1
capture in that country of senior
al-Qaida planner Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed provided further
proof that operatives experi
mented with various forms of
chemical, radiological and bio
logical weapons, law enforce
ment officials say.
The FBI bulletin says hydro
gen cyanide or chlorine gas
could be produced by combin
ing liquid and solid materials,
possibly using a canister such as
a paint can with holes pierced
into it. The materials could be
combined using either a blasting
cap or some kind of delayed
switch.
“When combined, this cre
ates the toxic gas that would
emerge through the holes,” the
bulletin says.
Such a device would be most
effective in an enclosed space,
the bulletin adds, because it
would be dispersed too quickly
in larger areas or out in the open
to kill or injure many
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attack because “the devicei
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military contact with U.N
By Vincent Yu
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PANMUNJOM, Korea —
North Korea on Wednesday cut
off the sole regular military con
tact with the U.S.-led U.N.
Command that monitors the
Korean War armistice, saying it
was “meaningless” to sit with the
Americans.
The move will further isolate
the North amid heightened ten
sion over its suspected nuclear
weapons programs.
The North has accused the
United States of using the nuclear
issue as an excuse to attack the
communist state, and Pyongyang
has said it would boost its defens
es amid such fears.
But South Korean President
Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday
dismissed as “groundless” alle
gations by the North that U.S.
forces may attack and spark a
“second Iraqi crisis” on the
Korean Peninsula.
“There will be no war on
the Korean Peninsula as long
as we do not want a war,”
Roh’s office quoted him as say
ing, adding that Washington
has repeatedly pledged to
resolve the crisis peacefully.
Meanwhile, U.N. envoy
Maurice Strong said
Korean officials told him in meet
ings in Pyongyang last week tbsi
they “reserved the right"
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experts say could yield enoi
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move would spike tension even
further.
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to the U.N. Command
will no longer send its
to the liaison-officers’meetingal
the in ter-Korean border village of
Panmunjom.
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the end of the 1950-53 war,
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Peninsula is still technically in J
state of war.
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