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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_72131,00050004.htm The Hindustan Times September 26, 2002 Rumsfeld says he received support from some NATO ministers on Iraq Agence France-Presse Warsaw, September 25 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday he had received unsolicited gestures of political or military support on Iraq from some US allies. "The answer is yes," he told reporters. "People did come up to me and indicate in a variety of different ways the views of their government." But Rumsfeld would not be more specific about which countries expressed support for the United States or the kind of support they indicated they were prepared to provide. Rumsfeld discussed Iraq at a private dinner with defence ministers from the 19 NATO nations late Tuesday following a classified CIA briefing on the threat posed by Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction. Asked here whether the intelligence presented by Deputy Director of the CIA John McLaughlin links Iraq to Al-Qaeda, Rumsfeld said, "I have no desire going beyond except to say the answer is 'yes'." Rumsfeld and other US administration officials in the past have accused Iraq of harbouring Al-Qaeda terrorists, but have provided no details on the links between them. It was unclear how much of an impact the briefing and private dinner discussions had on the allies. Political tensions between the United States and Germany intruded on the deliberations with Rumsfeld and German Defence Minister Peter Struck engaged in a game of diplomatic snubbing. Denying he had snubbed Struck by refusing to meet with him during a two day informal gathering of NATO defensc ministers, Rumsfeld noted that Struck stayed away from the session Tuesday in which the CIA briefing was presented. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
