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Intelligence, N. 413, 16 December 2002, p. 7 USA - RICHARD PERLE In a recent interview with the London-based newspaper, "The Guardian", Richard Perle, the Pentagon's chief adviser on Iraq, and one of the architects of US policy towards the Arab/Islamic world in general, accused Europe -- with the exception of the UK -- of losing its "moral compass" and "providing succor" to Saddam Hussein. Referred to by Washington "insiders" as the "Prince of Darkness", Mr. Perle appeared on CNN last September to call for an "all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of Western Europeans". He accused France of diplomatic manoeuvres, "but not moral fiber", for leading what he termed the "resistance" within the UN Security Council to attempts by the Bush administration to secure an "automatic mandate" for war against Iraq. He described Germany, and the recently re-elected "red/green coalition" under Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, of "subsiding into moral-numbing pacifism" and the decision not to support military action against the Baghdad regime as "unilateralism." He claimed that Europe, in general, has chosen to "ignore the realities" of the Iraqi leader's excesses, accused "left-wing" European politicians, in particular, of taking a position which "could be constructed as protecting the [Iraqi] regime" and expressed "serious reservations" about the ability of Dr. Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, and his team of conventional and atomic arms specialists, to effectively report on Iraq. He also predicted that Iraq was only the first "in a long list of dictatorships and countries" which "harbor terrorists"; others, including Iran, Syria and North Korea, also "merited the international community's attention." Born in 1944, Richard Perle attended high-school in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA and Princeton in 1969, with degrees in international relations. He immediately went to Washington to work for Albert Wohlstetter, regarded as the Rand Corporation's "intellectual master of strategic analysis", on a committee to lobby for ABM funding. He took a job with Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, a conservative Washington Democrat, and a major influence on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Perle worked for Jackson for almost ten years, opposing the arms control activities of three White House administrations. He persuaded Richard Nixon to purge the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) of staffers who had negotiated the SALT 1 Treaty with the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration not to ratify SALT II. In February 1983, Perle told "Newsweek" that "democracies will not sacrifice to protect their security in the absence of danger, and every time we create the impression that we and the Soviets are cooperating and moderating the competition, we diminish the sense of apprehension." Appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration, Perle regarded the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev's genuine proposals on disa rmament as "pure propaganda", according to historian Frances Fitzgerald, in her excellent history of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), "Way Out There In The Blue" (Touchstone, NY, 2000). In fact, Perle initially took no interest in SDI, describing it as "the product of millions of American teenagers putting quarters in video machines", according to Strobe Talbott in "Master of the Game - Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace" (Knopf, NY, 1988). He believed SDI would give Congress an excuse to oppose the development of "offensive weapons systems." However, he came to regard "Star Wars" as the "ultimate weapon against arms control" and even liked the nickname, according to Fitzgerald, telling colleagues in Washington "it's a good movie, besides the good guys won." Apart from his duties at the Pentagon, Richard Perle is also chief executive of Hollinger Digital, part of the group which published the London-based "Daily Telegraph" and a board member of the "Jerusalem Post". He is regarded by both hawks and the anti-war lobby in Washington, as a "master of disinformation" and the "moderate" Secretary of State, Colin Powell -- moderate in comparison to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld axis of war -- refers privately to Perle and his associates as "the bombers." This clique includes the "Wall Street Journal" editorial page, the "Weekly Standard" and "Bill Safire, his mouthpiece at the New York Times", according to Jude Wanniski, a former colleague and "buddy" of Perle whom he met during the 1969 Nixon administration. Wanniski later became a self-confessed "peacenik" when the Cold War ended and is a vocal opponent of current White House gun-boat, cruise missile, hair-trigger diplomacy. The "cosy and cleverly-constructed network" of Middle East "experts" surrounding Perle, according to "Guardian" journalist, Brian Whitaker, in an article last August, centers on Washington-based research institutes "funded by tax-deductible gifts from unidentified donors." Dick Perle is a "resident fellow" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) whose Middle East studies department is headed by his friend and political ally, David Wurmser. An associate of Perle and Wurmser at AEI is Michael Rubin, formerly with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), who is described in the institute's literature as a "specialist" on Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, and also a member of the Middle East Forum (MEF). Keeping up the Wurmser family tradition of anti-Arab sentiment is Meyrav Wurmser, wife of David, and co-founder -- with ex-Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman) officer, Colonel Yigal Carmon, a former adviser on counter-terrorism to ex-Israeli premier, Yitzhak Shamir -- of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). During the Gulf War, Col. Carmon had access to all Israeli intelligence material, and, in a February 1991 briefing, he noted that none of the militant Palestinian organizations supported by Syria -- which was part of the US-led coalition -- had been active. This, he argued, was "proof" that Middle East states could "control terrorism" if it was in their interest to do so. Mrs. Wurmser is also head of the Middle East section of the Hudson Institute where Perle is on the board of trustees, and, like Michael Rubin, is also a member of the MEF. Along with Mr. Rubin, two other members of MEF, Robert Satloff and Patrick Clawson, are prominent executive members of the Washington Institute, whose director is former US diplomat, Dennis Ross, and which has been described as the "most influential of the Middle East think tanks and the one that the State Department takes most seriously." According to Whitaker, between mid-September 2001 and mid-August 2002, the Washington Institute placed 90 articles on Arab affairs in many influential newspapers and weekly publications, including fourteen in the "Los Angeles Times", nine in the "New Republic", eight in the "Wall Street Journal" and the "Jerusalem Post", seven in the "National Review Online", six in the "Daily Telegraph" (London) and the "Washington Post", four in the "New York Times" and in the "Baltimore Sun". 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