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Archived News Articles: NMD and Foreign Policy
11/26/2001 from AP: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011126/16/news-attacks-bush Bush Warns Iraq, North Korea By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent Updated: Mon, Nov 26 4:43 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Monday the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is "just the beginning" of the fight against terrorism, and he warned Iraq and North Korea there would be consequences for producing weapons of mass destruction. ... Some advisers are pushing Bush to make Iraq his next target. Many of those aides worked for Bush's father who led the country through the Persian Gulf War that ended with Saddam's promise to stop producing weapons of mass destruction and to open his nation to inspectors. ...
11/26/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011125/sc/science_clone_dc_4.html U.S. Firm Clones Human Embryo for Cells By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Sunday November 25 6:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. company said on Sunday it had cloned a human embryo for the first time ever in a breakthrough aimed not at creating a human being but at mining the embryo for stem cells used to treat diseases.
Biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology Inc. (ACT), based in Worcester, Massachusetts, said it hopes the experiment will lead to tailored treatments for diseases ranging from Parkinson's to juvenile diabetes. It also coaxed a woman's egg cell into becoming an early embryo on its own, without any kind of fertilization. …
11/26/2001 at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/26SAFI.html Kangaroo Courts By WILLIAM SAFIRE
11/26/2001 from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/technology/ebusiness/26GPS.html Europe Plans to Compete With U.S. Satellite Network By JENNIFER B. LEE
11/28/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011128/wl/attack_afghan_schroeder_dc_3.html Germany Warns U.S. on Wider Anti-Terror War Wednesday November 28 11:55 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany warned the United States Wednesday against expanding its war on terrorism in Afghanistan to countries such as Iraq and Somalia. ``All European nations would view a broadening (of the conflict) to include Iraq highly skeptically -- and that is putting it diplomatically,'' Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told parliament. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reiterated his support for the U.S.-led coalition but said Germany was not ``simply waiting to intervene militarily elsewhere in the world, such as Iraq or Somalia.'' Both men suggested that bombing Iraq could trigger a wider, uncontrollable conflict in the Middle East. ...
11/29/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011129/pl/arms_usa_missiles_dc_4.html Pentagon Plans Missile Defense Test Saturday By Charles Aldinger Thursday November 29 3:50 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military plans to conduct its fifth ``hit-to-kill'' missile defense test in space over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday as Moscow and Washington remain at odds over the American anti-missile program, the Pentagon said on Thursday. ``It is scheduled for Saturday night. It is just part of an ongoing and robust missile defense program,'' Defense Department spokeswoman Victoria Clarke told reporters. ...
12/4/2001 from Reuters and AP: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011204/ts/arms_usa_missiles_dc_14.html U.S. Missile Defense Test Succeeds After Two Delays Tuesday December 4 12:13 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States military on Monday successfully carried out a twice-delayed test shoot-down of a missile warhead over the Pacific Ocean, advancing missile defense plans opposed by Moscow and Beijing. ...
dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011204/pl/missile_defense.html Pentagon: Missile Test a Success Tuesday December 4 4:01 AM ET By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military says it completed its third successful missile defense test, knocking a dummy warhead out of space more than 100 miles over the South Pacific. ... An interceptor missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands collided with the dummy warhead at about 10:30 p.m. EST, the military said. The test was nearly identical to a successful one in July. ...
dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011204/wl/arms_china_usa_dc_1.html China Fumes Over U.S. Missile Test Tuesday December 4 5:19 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it remained staunchly opposed to plans by Washington to develop a national missile defense system after the United States tested its controversial missile defense shield. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue told a news conference ... " ... we believe that relevant sides should, through sincere and serious dialogues, seek a solution that does not compromise any side's security interests, nor harm international efforts at arms-control and disarmament,'' ...
12/6/2001 from Reuters: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011206/wl/arms_russia_usa_dc_1.html Russia Says Move to Dump ABM May Destabilize World Thursday December 6 10:34 AM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Thursday against unilateral moves to dump a landmark pact banning missile defense, saying it could destabilize the international situation already tense due to Afghanistan. Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov told visiting U.S. Under-Secretary of State John Bolton that a move by the United States to leave the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty would be a mistake, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. ``During the talks the Russian side once again noted the negative consequences for international stability of any U.S. decision to unilaterally leave the 1972 ABM treaty, which is supported by the vast majority of countries,'' it said. ``It would be particularly dangerous given the current difficult international situation,'' the communique said, a clear reference to the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan. ...
12/7/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011206/pl/attack_iraq_usa_dc_1.html Lawmakers Urge Bush to Make Iraq Next Target Thursday December 6 6:53 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten leading members of Congress have urged President Bush to make Iraq the next target in the U.S. war on terrorism, saying it has reinvigorated its weapons programs in the three years since U.N. inspectors left. ... Among those signing the letter were Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jesse Helms, former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and former Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The letter is the latest in a string of calls for a renewed offensive against Iraq and President Saddam Hussein once the Afghanistan campaign ends. ...
12/11/2001 from Reuters, CNN and AP: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011211/ts/arms_missile_usa_dc_2.html U.S. Nearing ABM Treaty Withdrawal By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent Tuesday December 11 4:24 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday the ''time is near'' to move beyond the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and there were signs President Bush would soon formally announce U.S. withdrawal plans. ``We will need to move beyond the ABM treaty. That time is near and the president will let you know when that time has arrived,'' National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack told Reuters in Charleston, South Carolina, where he accompanied Bush to a speaking engagement at The Citadel military school. During the speech, Bush reiterated the United States ``must move beyond the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty,'' which bars the United States and Russia from developing and deploying national missile defense systems, so that it can vigorously develop a missile defense system. He stopped short of announcing a formal intent to withdraw. But administration officials have told Republican Senate staff members that Bush expects to give formal notice in January of a required six-month withdrawal period from the treaty, Senate sources told Reuters. ...
www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/rec.bush.citadel/index.html Sources: U.S. intends to withdraw from ABM treaty December 11, 2001 Posted: 4:18 PM EST (2118 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush is expected to give notice soon to the Russian government that the United States intends to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, sources said Tuesday. Two top advisers to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin told CNN that Secretary of State Colin Powell told President Vladimir Putin of the administration's intentions after meetings this week in Moscow. The advisers said they expect Bush within days to give a formal six-month notice that the United States is pulling out of the treaty so the administration can do further tests on its missile defense program. ...
http://www.ap.org/ Bush to Withdraw From ABM Treaty By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent DECEMBER 11, 16:45 ET WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will soon give Russia notice that the United States is withdrawing from the 1972 nuclear treaty that bans testing of missile defense systems, U.S. government officials said Tuesday.
He will announce the decision in the next several days, effectively invoking a clause in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that requires the United States and Russia to give six months' notice before abandoning the pact.
Initial White House plans called for announcing the decision Thursday, but officials cautioned that date could change. The four government officials spoke on condition of anonymity. ...
12/11/2001 at ABCNews: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20011210/pl/enron011210_1.html Enron's Close Ties to Bush By Josh Gerstein ABCNEWS.com Monday December 10 02:52 PM EST When the energy-trading firm Enron collapsed recently after disclosing financial irregularities, thousands of employees lost their jobs and investors lost billions. Enron's fall also crippled one of President Bush's most loyal corporate supporters. ...
12/12/2001 at The Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1213/p1s1-wosc.html Bin Laden in Pakistan, source claims As US airstrikes pound Tora Bora, a top Al Qaeda aide says the leader has fled. By Philip Smucker | Special to The Christian Science
12/13/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011213/ts/arms_missile_usa_dc_17.html Bush: U.S. Abandoning Key 1972 Missile Treaty By Steve Holland Thursday December 13 1:43 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rejecting Russian and Chinese opposition, President Bush gave formal notice on Thursday that the United States is abandoning the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to press ahead with a missile defense system. ...
12/13/2001 from AP: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011213/pl/bush_privilege_10.html Bush Invokes Executive Privilege By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer Thursday December 13 2:21 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutors' decision-making in cases ranging from a decades-old Boston murder to the Clinton-era fund-raising probe. ``I believe congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest,'' Bush wrote in a memo ordering Attorney General John Ashcroft to withhold the documents from a House investigative committee that subpoenaed them. The decision institutes a dramatic change in the way the administration intends to deal with Congress after years in which the Justice Department, sometimes reluctantly, shared sensitive investigative documents with lawmakers.
Republicans and Democrats alike excoriated the decision, suggesting Bush was creating a ``monarchy'' or ``imperial'' presidency to keep Congress for (sic: from) overseeing the executive branch and guarding against corruption. ...
12/15/2001 fom Reuters and AP: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011215/wl/pakistan_india_warning_dc_1.html Pakistan Threatens 'Force' if India Acts By Sheree Sardar Saturday December 15 8:22 PM ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday threatened to retaliate with force if arch-rival India took any ``precipitous action'' after accusing a Pakistan-based guerrilla group of being behind this week's attack on parliament in New Delhi. ... dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011215/wl/india_parliament_attack_6.html India, Pakistan Tensions Grow By NEELESH MISRA, Associated Press Writer Saturday December 15 4:58 PM ET NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The Indian leadership on Saturday issued its harshest rhetoric yet after the suicide terrorist attack on Parliament, accusing Pakistan of sponsoring the carnage and threatening to blast terrorist camps. In Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the president, put the army on high alert, said India had no proof the attackers operated from or were supported by his country and warned New Delhi against reprisals. ...
12/18/2001 from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/18/international/middleeast/18IRAQ.html U.S. Again Placing Focus on Ousting Hussein By PATRICK E. TYLER December 18, 2001 WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 - The option of taking the war against terrorism to Iraq and Saddam Hussein has gained significant ground in recent weeks both inside the administration and among some important allies in the Muslim world, according to administration officials and diplomats from the region. ... Asked today whether Iraq is next in the antiterrorist campaign, President Bush said: "Oh, no, I'm not going to tell the enemy what's next. They just need to know that so long as they plan, and have got plans, to murder innocent people, America will be breathing down their neck." ...
12/18/2001 from AP: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011218/pl/mini_nukes_1.html Officials Back Low-Yield Nuke Strike By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Tuesday December 18 7:26 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP)- A low-yield nuclear strike may be the best way to destroy underground stockpiles of chemical and biological agents, Defense officials said in a report to Congress. The report concludes that it would be impossible for conventional weapons to destroy the most deeply buried facilities of a terrorist group or hostile state that contain chemical or biological weapons, and that a low-yield nuclear device could do the job. But the United States has no ``bunker-busting'' nuclear warhead that can penetrate deep enough and with enough accuracy to destroy such an enemy stockpile. And since 1994, the government has been barred by Congress from development any new nuclear warhead. Despite the ban, the report shows that the administration views a nuclear strike as ``an intrinsic part'' of dealing with deeply entombed enemy targets and ``is essentially doing all the preparation'' for a future full-scale research and development program for a new mini-nuclear warhead, said Martin Butcher, director of security programs at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. This kind of warhead, even at low yields, is ``the dirtiest kind of all. It's highly radioactive,'' said Butcher, whose group as been a leading voice in the nuclear nonproliferation debate. It sends ``the wrong signals'' and will add to the risk of nuclear proliferation. The report sent to key committees in Congress by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in October provides a general outline of U.S. capabilities for dealing with what defense officials believe is a growing gap in U.S. military response: The ability to attack deeply buried, hardened enemy targets that are suspected of housing weapons of mass destruction. ... A copy of the report was distributed by Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, based in Santa Fe, on its web site. ... www.nukewatch.org
12/21/2001 from The Washinton Post at msnbc: http://www.msnbc.com/news/675622.asp Pakistan develops as war's next front By Thomas E. Ricks and Alan Sipress THE WASHINGTON POST Dec. 20 - With the collapse of the Taliban and the flight of hundreds of al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan, neighboring Pakistan is rapidly becoming the new front in the U.S. military campaign, perhaps even the key to how successfully the war ends. IF INDICATIONS mount that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, pressure may grow for the 1,500 U.S. military personnel now based in that country to become more directly involved in the hunt for him. The problems facing Pakistan as the Afghan war spills into its territory were underscored yesterday when 13 people were killed after dozens of suspected al Qaeda fighters who had been taken prisoner after
crossing the border overwhelmed their guards and started a gun battle. Pakistan has been on both sides of the situation in Afghanistan. It was there for the Taliban, providing crucial assistance when the Islamic militia took power in 1996. And it was there for the United States, quickly rallying to President Bush's call for a war on terrorism after Sept. 11. Now it is being forced by the hunt for al Qaeda members to come to terms with its internal divisions. ...
12/27/2001 from Reuters: www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=478503 Bush Returns to Texas Ranch to See in 'War Year' By Patricia Wilson December 26, 2001 06:15 PM ET CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - For just the second time since the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush savored the wide open spaces of his beloved Texas ranch on Wednesday, recharging his batteries for "a war year" in 2002. ... In the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, 39 percent of those surveyed chose Bush as the living man they admired most. The previous record for men was set by Kennedy, who received 32 percent in 1961, the end of his first year as president. ... "Next year will be a war year as well because we're going to continue to hunt down these al Qaeda people in this particular theater, as well as other places," Bush said last week. ...
12/28/2001 from Reuters: dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011228/wl/india_pakistan_dc_28.html Friday December 28 9:48 AM ET India Seeks Help for Its Own War on Terrorism By Y.P. Rajesh and Raja Asghar NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India appealed on Friday for international support for its own war on terrorism but vowed to tackle Pakistani-based Muslim militants with or without outside help. As India and Pakistan massed troops along their border and trade tit-for-tat sanctions and the United States urged peace talks, Indian Home (interior) Minister Lal Krishna Advani said the fight against terrorism did not end with Osama bin Laden. ``I would like to say to nations that the problems that they are trying to solve are not connected with one man or one country,'' he said, referring to bin Laden and Afghanistan. ``This problem is born from fundamentalism...and thus we must fight against fundamentalism. And that is why I want to say that the fight this time will be such that it will not be against any country but for decisive victory over terrorism.'' Advani said India would welcome international support: ``But if not, even then we will not worry.''... India's foreign ministry said Pakistan's retaliation showed it was still not recognizing the gravity of the situation. ``Pakistan still refuses to recognize the need to take precise, focused steps to address the central issue of terrorism operating out of Pakistan,'' Nirupama Rao told reporters. ``It is Pakistan which is the epicenter of terrorism in the region and refuses to recognize the ramifications of that situation and the gravity with which India views this entire matter.'' ... Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh on Thursday said talks with Pakistan were neither practical nor possible in the current climate. India has also ruled out a one-on-one meeting between Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at a summit of South Asian leaders due to start in Nepal next week. There are now doubts if that summit can even go ahead.
1/8/2002 At The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/international/08PENT.html U.S. Sees Battles After Afghan War in Lawless Areas By JAMES DAO and ERIC SCHMITT January 8, 2002 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - The war on terrorism after Afghanistan could focus on denying terrorist groups sanctuary in places like Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia and the Philippines, countries where they have sometimes operated freely, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz said today. ... Mr. Wolfowitz stressed that he was not providing an explicit forecast for the next step in the war on terrorism and that the Pentagon had not ruled out imminent military action against any country. ... He also asserted that the Pentagon's main focus remained Afghanistan, which he described as being "at least as treacherous and dangerous now as it was a month or two ago." ... "One of the most difficult things in the next few months is going to be establishing which of our allies of convenience in the early stages of this war can become real allies over the longer term, and which ones are going to be major troublemakers, and which ones are going to just switch sides," Mr. Wolfowitz said in the interview. ...
1/11/2002 at the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000002769jan11.story Camps Thrive in Pakistan, India Charges Asia: Spy agency says Islamabad won't dismantle 17 terrorist training complexes
By PAUL WATSON and SIDHARTHA BARUA, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEW DELHI -- While pressure mounts on Pakistan to take tougher action against terrorism, India's top spy agency charges that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has done nothing to dismantle what it says are at least 17 terrorist training camps in territory under his control. India's equivalent of the CIA, the Research and Analysis Wing, has identified the training camps in Pakistani-controlled areas of the disputed Kashmir region and Pakistan proper. The camps are used to train fighters for three Pakistan-based groups battling to end Indian rule in Kashmir, a senior Indian intelligence source said, speaking on condition he not be identified because of the clandestine nature of his work. At least two of the three groups have links to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, according to the RAW, which answers directly to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Although Musharraf insists publicly that he is determined to end all forms of terrorism, there is no evidence that his government has tried to shut down the camps, the Indian intelligence official said. ...
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