- 'Surgical strike' - Auf Perle ist Verlass! (Steht so in Wash.Post) - dottore, 12.06.2003, 16:46
- Operation Sphinx (Angriff auf Osirak) - HB, 12.06.2003, 17:06
- Re: Operation Sphinx (Angriff auf Osirak) - Fortsetzung - HB, 12.06.2003, 17:08
- Re: Operation Sphinx (Angriff auf Osirak) - Fortsetzung - Loki, 12.06.2003, 18:17
- Danke HB für´s Reinstellen! Genaue Quelle möglich? - McShorty, 12.06.2003, 19:28
- Re: Danke HB für´s Reinstellen! Genaue Quelle möglich? - @McShorty - Elli -, 12.06.2003, 19:32
- Re: Danke HB für´s Reinstellen! Genaue Quelle möglich? - Loki, 12.06.2003, 19:37
- Danke an Loki + HB! Sorry ELLI, werde mich bessern, versprochen:-) - owT - McShorty, 12.06.2003, 20:00
- Im Mail wäre aber schon mehr drin gewesen, als nur die ISBN ;-) (owT) - HB, 12.06.2003, 21:50
- Re: Im Mail wäre aber schon mehr drin gewesen, als nur die ISBN ;-) (owT) - Loki, 12.06.2003, 22:24
- Du hast Post (owT) - HB, 12.06.2003, 23:01
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- Du hast Post (owT) - HB, 12.06.2003, 23:01
- Re: Im Mail wäre aber schon mehr drin gewesen, als nur die ISBN ;-) (owT) - Loki, 12.06.2003, 22:24
- Im Mail wäre aber schon mehr drin gewesen, als nur die ISBN ;-) (owT) - HB, 12.06.2003, 21:50
- Danke an Loki + HB! Sorry ELLI, werde mich bessern, versprochen:-) - owT - McShorty, 12.06.2003, 20:00
- Re: Danke HB für´s Reinstellen! Genaue Quelle möglich? - Loki, 12.06.2003, 19:37
- Gib mir mal deine Mailadresse - HB, 12.06.2003, 19:43
- Re: Washington Post (ex rtr) gestern EST (so wörtlich) (owT) - dottore, 12.06.2003, 21:45
- Re: Danke HB für´s Reinstellen! Genaue Quelle möglich? - @McShorty - Elli -, 12.06.2003, 19:32
- Re: Operation Sphinx (Angriff auf Osirak) - Fortsetzung - HB, 12.06.2003, 17:08
- Operation Sphinx (Angriff auf Osirak) - HB, 12.06.2003, 17:06
'Surgical strike' - Auf Perle ist Verlass! (Steht so in Wash.Post)
-->U.S. Can't Rule Out N.Korea Strike, Rumsfeld Adviser Says
Reuters
Wednesday, June 11, 2003; 4:32 PM
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States
should be prepared to destroy North Korea's
Yongbyon reactor if necessary to keep Pyongyang
from trafficking in nuclear weapons, an influential
member of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's
advisory panel said on Wednesday.
"Whether we can effectively mobilize a coalition --
including China, Russia, the South Koreans, the
Japanese, ourselves -- and so isolate them that
they will abandon this program, that remains to be
seen," said Richard Perle, an architect of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
"That's certainly the preferable way to deal with it,"
he added in a speech to a conference on Iraqi
reconstruction.
"But I don't think anyone can exclude the kind of
surgical strike we saw in 1981," he said, referring
to Israel's surprise air attack that destroyed Iraq's
Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad on June 7,
1981."We should always be prepared to go it
alone, if necessary."
The administration of President Bush has branded
North Korea part of"an axis of evil" with Iran and
pre-war Iraq and wants Pyongyang to ditch its
nuclear program.
The nuclear dispute erupted last October when the
United States said Pyongyang had admitted to
having a covert program.
On Monday, North Korea said it wanted nuclear
weapons so it could cut its huge conventional
forces and divert funds into an economy foreign
analysts say is close to collapse.
"I think we must assume that if they had a nuclear
weapon, and if al Qaeda wished to purchase a
nuclear weapon, it's a deal that could be done,"
said Perle, who was assistant secretary of defense
for international security policy under President
Ronald Reagan.
Washington blames Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
group for the Sept. 11 attacks that killed more
than 3,000 people.
Perle resigned on March 27 as chairman of the
Defense Policy Board, an unpaid advisory panel to
Rumsfeld, after critics charged his business
activities conflicted with his work for the board.
He remains a board member.
He said the United States could not let Communist
North Korea acquire nuclear weapons. But he did
not address U.S. intelligence assessments that
Pyongyang already has one or perhaps two
nuclear weapons based on plutonium obtained
from a program that, frozen in 1994, was resumed
late last year.
Asked whether the United States ultimately might resort to force, he said:"It is too soon to say whether
that's the only way we can prevent something I think we must prevent."
Perle said the situation in Iran, which Washington accuses of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the
guise of building power-generating reactors, was very different from North Korea's.
"I think we should be encouraging its failure," he said of the Iranian government.
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