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...There is a professional officer corps, and they do have contacts outside," says the former U.S. official who in September acted as middleman between Iraqis and the Administration. "What you want to do is build up a capability to make those contacts." In a radio interview, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "Saddam can't use [weapons of mass destruction] himself... He has to use intermediaries. We are communicating with people in that regime. And the truth is that anyone who is in any way connected with weapons of mass destruction and their use...would be held accountable...
...more than 180. The voice's condemnation of key allies in the U.S. antiterrorism war--Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Australia--put foreign governments on alert for another major hit. Bin Laden also named Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--he calls them "the White House gangsters"--and that has counterterrorism experts worried those officials might be personally targeted...
...kidney ailment. And when he's not declaring bin Laden dead, he has joined a long list of U.S. officials who have been insisting that the terrorist leader was not the ultimate prize. "We've always said that al-Qaeda did not depend on Osama bin Laden," Rumsfeld said last week. Yet the Defense chief also acknowledged "that tape was intended to be a very clear threat." In time, we will learn how crucial bin Laden's existence is to al-Qaeda's. But in symbolic terms, the value of getting him--dead or alive--remains incalculable. --With reporting...
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are decidedly outside the normal run of statesmen who have held high office in the U.S. And the things that make this Administration different will contribute to a terrible war in the near future [Iraq, Oct. 21]. America is behaving like an imperial power, extending its economic and political hegemony and riding roughshod over any opponent who may get in its way. Bush doesn't care whether these organizations and nations have legitimate grounds to question his economic, political and strategic objectives. Such behavior cannot fail to promote war. And there will...
...reviewing those controls and have provided technological fixes to iron out some of the problems. NATO officials hope the Spanish will demonstrate progress at Prague in improving the meager capacity of European allies to refuel their planes in flight. The allies got a further spur in September, when Rumsfeld formally proposed a combat force of up to 20,000 troops that can be deployed within a week and stay at least a month. This "NATO response force" - which bears more than a passing resemblance to the E.U.'s Rapid Reaction Force - is expected to be approved in Prague and calls...