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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Pentagon builds case to bomb Iraq By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Defense Department strategists are building a case for a massive bombing of Iraq as a new phase of President Bush's war against terrorism, congressional and Pentagon sources say. Proponents of attacking Iraq, spearheaded by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, are now arguing privately that still-elusive evidence linking Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime to the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 is not necessary to trigger a military strike. In Geneva Monday, the United States said it strongly suspected Iraq of building a germ warfare program, but it stopped short of saying that it might supply biological weapons to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. ''The United States strongly suspects that Iraq has taken advantage of three years of no U.N. inspections to improve all phases of its offensive biological weapons program,'' said John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control. ''The existence of Iraq's program is beyond dispute.'' He also said the United States was ''quite concerned'' about Libya, Syria and Sudan, all of which appeared to have biological weapons programs. Pentagon officials say Iraq should be a target because it supports terrorism, is trying to build nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and has refused to admit U.N. weapons inspectors for nearly 3 years. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, "We didn't need Sept. 11 to tell us that Saddam Hussein is a very dangerous man." U.S. officials say no decision on bombing Iraq has been made. The top U.S. priority, they stress, remains tracking down Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his al-Qa'eda network in Afghanistan. Officials say the campaign won't stop there. Besides Iraq, Pentagon officials are eyeing al-Qa'eda operations in Somalia, Sudan, and South America. "The war on terrorism neither begins or ends with Afghanistan," Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said Sunday. The president will decide the next target. Word of a new push to attack Iraq came as the Navy said it was searching for two sailors aboard an oil tanker that sank in the northern Persian Gulf. The sailors from the destroyer USS Peterson had been trying to keep the tanker afloat after it had been interdicted for allegedly smuggling nearly 2,000 tons of Iraqi oil. The tanker, carrying the flag of the United Arab Emirates, sank because it was overloaded and in poor condition, according to the Navy. It said one member of the tanker's 14-man crew drowned and three others were missing. A source on Capitol Hill said Pentagon strategists are looking at an array of military targets in Iraq, including barracks and headquarters of the elite Republican Guard. The State Department has adamantly opposed broadening the war to Iraq out of concern that it would infuriate Arab public opinion and fracture the U.S.-led alliance against al-Qa'eda. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
