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Archived News Articles: NMD and Foreign Policy
10/14/2001 from Reuters:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011013/ts/attack_dc_409.html
Al Qaeda Threatens US, UK; Afghan Raids Continue
By Stuart Doughty and Sayed Salahuddin
Saturday October 13 9:51 PM ET
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
group threatened on Saturday to attack the United States
and Britain in retaliation for bombing Afghanistan as
U.S. warplanes resumed raids on the country and its
Taliban rulers. ...
In a statement broadcast on Qatar's al-Jazeera
television network on Saturday, al Qaeda spokesman
Sulaiman Bu Ghaith told U.S. and British ``infidels'' to
leave the Gulf or else ``fire will flare underneath
their feet. ``We tell Bush and others in the U.S.
administration that the storms will not stop,
particularly the storm of hijacked planes, until the
strikes against Afghanistan end and until Palestinian
land is liberated,'' Bu Ghaith said. ``We also advise
Americans and Britons, especially Muslims, children and
all those who oppose U.S. policy, not to ride planes or
live in high buildings,'' he said. ...
10/14/2001 from Reuters:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011013/ts/attack_protest_dc_2.html
Anti-U.S. Riots Rock Nigeria; Protests Elsewhere
By Emeka Madu
Saturday October 13 7:42 PM ET
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed
in Nigeria in anti-American riots Saturday and thousands
of demonstrators joined peace marches in London and
Berlin.
Nigerian authorities issued a shoot-on-sight order and
clamped a night curfew on Kano, the biggest city in the
mainly Muslim north, after some of the most violent
anti-American protests in Africa since U.S. air strikes
on Afghanistan began.
Army tanks criss-crossed the streets to quell riots
which followed a pattern of Muslim-Christian clashes
that have killed thousands in oil-producing Nigeria over
the past two years.
``There is rampant shooting in the streets,'' said
resident Jibrin Idris, who said he was trapped in a
building with scores of people in the city's commercial
district. ``Churches, mosques and shops are on fire.
There is smoke everywhere,'' he said by telephone. ...
10/16/2001 from AP:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011016/21/int-attacks-australia-troops
Premier: Australia to Deploy Troops
Updated: Tue, Oct 16 9:03 PM EDT
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia will begin
deploying troops and military hardware to the Persian
Gulf over the next two weeks to join the U.S.-led
coalition against terrorism, Prime Minister John Howard
said Wednesday. ...
10/16/2001 from AP:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011016/10/int-india-pakistan
India Vows to Take Punitive Action
By ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press Writer
Updated: Tue, Oct 16 10:10 AM EDT
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India warned it will be ruthless
in dealing with Islamic militant infiltrators entering
from Pakistan, as the nations' forces exchanged fire
Tuesday across the volatile border dividing Kashmir.
Tuesday's gunfire came after the nuclear rivals
exchanged the heaviest mortar and rocket fire of the
year Monday night. It accompanied a visit by U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region to calm
tensions and shore up support for the U.S.-led war on
terrorism. ...
In Pakistan, Powell on Tuesday expressed a willingness
to help Pakistan and India resolve their differences
over Kashmir. He said the dispute "must be resolved in
accord with the wishes of the Kashmir people." ...
India, however, criticized Powell for saying that
Kashmir was at the heart of tension between the two
countries. It feels Pakistan-backed terrorism is the
issue. ...
10/17/2001 from MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/468764.asp
Sharon vows war "to the bitter end"
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
JERUSALEM, Oct. 17 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for
Wednesday's assassination of a Cabinet minister and
vowed to wage "war to the bitter end" against
terrorists. The possibility of stiff retaliation is
likely to damage U.S. efforts to calm the region as it
struggles to retain Arab support for its own war on
terrorism. ...
10/17/2001 from MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/644008.asp
Bush heading to China conclave
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
Oct. 17 - President Bush, embarking Wednesday for an
economic summit in China, said he was leaving at a
difficult time for the nation but that his trip is an
important part of the U.S. campaign to foil terrorism.
"The terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and we
will defeat them by expanding and encouraging world
trade," Bush told a crowd in Sacramento, Calif., during
a brief stop on his journey to Shanghai. ...
The president's trip to the 21-nation gathering
of Asian-Pacific leaders will take Bush out of the
country for five days in the midst of U.S. airstrikes
against Taliban targets in Afghanistan. ...
The president also issued a blunt warning to the
North Korean regime to not try to take advantage of the
current focus on terrorism to launch an attack on South
Korea.
"North Korea should not in any way, shape or form
think that because we happen to be engaged in
Afghanistan we will not be prepared and ready to fulfill
our end of our agreement with the South Korean
government," Bush told the Asian editors. "They should
not use this as an opportunity to threaten our close
friend and ally, South Korea." ...
10/19/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/international/19DIPL.html
Russia and U.S. Optimistic on Defense Issues
By PATRICK E. TYLER
October 19, 2001
SHANGHAI, Oct. 18 - Russia and the United States
signaled tonight that they were near a breakthrough on
the key strategic issues that had divided the two
countries since President Bush came into office, in
particular Washington's plans to build missile defenses
and Russia's troubled relations with an expanding NATO
alliance. ...
The momentum in the strategic arms negotiations,
stalemated for months after the two leaders opened them
this summer at their first meetings in Slovenia and
Italy, follows Mr. Putin's announcement last month that
he was opening Russian air space to the American airlift
of military and relief cargoes to Central Asian
republics for deployment on Afghanistan's northern
frontier.
Along with its support for the American military
campaign in Afghanistan, Russia is offering its oil
fields as a secure alternative to dependence on the
turbulent Persian Gulf. ...
Washington and Moscow now regard the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks on the United States as a watershed event in
international relations, a number of experts say, that
has offered opportunities for Mr. Putin and Mr. Bush to
battle a common enemy. ...
Neither side made public the details of any prospective
agreement. But in recent days Secretary Powell has
underscored that Washington is now prepared to make the
kind of cuts in its nuclear arsenal that Moscow has been
seeking as a possible trade-off for amending the
Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Russia might also choose
not to object to a testing program for missile defenses
that might otherwise be construed as a violation of that
1972 accord. ...
10/20/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/international/asia/20CHIN.html
Frustrating U.S., China Balks at Pact to Stem Nuclear Sales
By CRAIG S. SMITH
October 20, 2001
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19 - President Bush and President Jiang
Zemin celebrated warming relations between their two
countries today, but behind the smiles little of
substance has yet changed. ...
``Despite the improved atmosphere, there remain a number
of concrete areas in U.S.-China relations that won't be
affected by the current cooperation against terrorism,
such as missile defense, Taiwan and evidently
nonproliferation,'' said David Shambaugh, director of
the China Policy Program at George Washington University
in Washington. ...
10/20/2001 from Reuters at MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/642438.asp
Russia, China want quick end to war
Putin, Jiang call for coalition government in Afghanistan
SHANGHAI, Oct. 20 - Russia and China said on Saturday
they supported an end to the U.S. military operation in
Afghanistan as soon as possible so a coalition
government could be formed including all "healthy
political forces." ...
CHINA REITERATED the U.S.-led strikes should be
aimed at clear targets and refrain from causing civilian
suffering. ...
"The leaders want an end to the military phase
and to move to a political settlement as soon as
possible," Putin's spokesman, Alexei Gromov, told
reporters after the leaders' talks.
"The two sides agreed that a coalition government
should be formed in Afghanistan in which all the main
healthy political forces and ethnic groups of
Afghanistan should be represented," the Russian
president's press service added in a statement. ...
Another topic likely to be discussed by Bush and
Putin is missile defense systems. Washington is keen to
build itself a protective shield. But Russia and China
say that would give the United States a strategic
advantage.
Showing a united front, Putin and Jiang again
affirmed their backing of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic
Missile treaty, which bans the kind of missile shields
the United States would like.
"Putin still sticks to his stand of supporting
the ABM treaty and believes it's very necessary and
conducive to world peace and stability," Chinese
spokesman Zhu added. "President Jiang also agreed with
him on that point." ...
10/21/2001 from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/investigation/A27748-2001Oct20.html
Silence of 4 Terror Probe Suspects Poses Dilemma
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 21, 2001; Page A06
FBI and Justice Department investigators are
increasingly frustrated by the silence of jailed
suspected associates of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
network, and some are beginning to that say that
traditional civil liberties may have to be cast aside if
they are to extract information about the Sept. 11
attacks and terrorist plans. ...
10/21/2001 from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23933-2001Oct19.html
Secret Tape Suggests China-Bin Laden Link
CIA Casts Doubt on Missile Technology Deal
By Peter Finn, Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 20, 2001; Page A17
MILAN -- Chinese nationals visited Osama bin Laden
terrorist camps in Afghanistan after a U.S. cruise
missile attack there in 1998 and paid for the right to
study and remove unexploded missiles, according to a
conversation between two alleged veterans of the camps
that was secretly taped by Italian police. ...
10/21/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/international/21INTE.html
Eavesdropping, U.S. Allies See New Terror Attack
By RAYMOND BONNER with JOHN TAGLIABUE
October 21, 2001
LONDON, Oct. 20 - More than a month after the September
terror attacks, the United States and its close allies
are still intercepting communications among Osama bin
Laden's associates and are convinced more attacks are
coming, intelligence officials in several countries say. ...
Since Sept. 11, foreign intelligence services have
arrested and interrogated hundreds of suspects, and they
claim to have disrupted at least four separate plans to
attack American and allied institutions in France,
Belgium, Jordan and Turkey. ...
Intelligence agencies in Europe and the Middle East say
they continue to monitor some communications between bin
Laden associates despite the fact that they are aware of
the intercepts. ...
"The aims and behavior of Osama bin Laden, and the
expectations of his followers and supporters, is that he
will answer the attacks on Afghanistan and the Taliban,"
said one European official. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/international/22TREA.html
Bush and Putin Agree to Agree
By PATRICK E. TYLER
October 22, 2001
SHANGHAI, Oct. 21 - For President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia and President Bush, the road to Crawford, Tex. -
and the tantalizing goal of rewriting the rules of arms
control - may have rounded its last corner here in Shanghai.
The two leaders said tonight that they had made progress
on narrowing their differences on the Antiballistic
Missile Treaty of 1972. Even before the meeting, Mr.
Putin had told senior aides and members of his traveling
party that he was ready to accede to an American request
to modify the ABM treaty so long as Mr. Bush did not
decide to withdraw altogether from the accord.
Mr. Putin emphasized tonight that he and Mr. Bush "have
an understanding that we can reach agreements." ...
In making his views known to senior aides and the circle
of Russian journalists who travel with him, Mr. Putin
appeared to be preparing the Russian political
establishment, and the Russian public, for what he sees
as the inevitable. ...
10/23/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/international/22PREX.html
Bush and Putin Declare They Can Alter ABM Pact
By DAVID E. SANGER
October 22, 2001
SHANGHAI, Oct. 21 - President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia emerged from more than an hour of talks with
President Bush today saying they could reach agreements
that would alter the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
If so, that would free the United States to test a
proposed antimissile system while meeting Moscow's
demand not to abandon the treaty altogether. ...
Mr. Bush cast the envisioned accord with Russia in terms
of a potentially historic new partnership, and dissented
from Mr. Putin's stated view that the ABM treaty is
still useful, even if imperfect and in need of change.
"We must truly and finally move beyond the cold war,"
Mr. Bush said. After today's meeting, he added, "we can
report progress toward that goal. "The terrorist
attacks, he said, "make it clearer than ever that a cold
war ABM treaty that prevents us from defending our
people is outdated, and I believe dangerous."
10/24/2001 at ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/saddam_text011023.html
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10/26/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011026/ts/attacks_terror_laws.html
Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill
By SONYA ROSS, Associated Press Writer
Friday October 26 3:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed an
anti-terrorism bill Friday that gives police
unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or
eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
``This government will enforce this law with all the
urgency of a nation at war,'' he said. ...
The bill is H.R. 3162. - On the Net: For bill text:
http://thomas.loc.gov
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