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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (1548)	2/3/2002 1:06:33 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

NATO MAY BALK ON EXPANSION OF TERRORISM WAR February 3, 2002 The Army Times reports: “NATO would not automatically support U.S. efforts to expand the war on terrorism to Iraq, Iran or North Korea, the military alliance’s chief said. NATO considered the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to be strikes against all 19 members — invoking Article 5 of its founding treaty — and supported U.S. retaliation against Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network and the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan who harbored it. But NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said that support would not automatically carry over to an expansion of the U.S. military campaign beyond Afghanistan. ‘I think if the Americans could produce convincing evidence that there was a link between other countries and the attack that took place, then I think the allies would be seriously interested in that information,’ he said Thursday. ‘But that hasn’t been forthcoming up to this moment. ‘So it’s a matter for the North Atlantic Council to decide what to do about an attack or any subsequent evidence,’ Robertson said, referring to NATO’s governing body… National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Thursday called North Korea the world’s No. 1 seller of ballistic missiles, with the Pentagon saying Iran and Pakistan are customers. Iraq has barred U.N. weapons inspectors for over three years, and is believed to be trying to rebuild its banned weapons programs. The NATO chief said there are threats from countries that now have missiles to deliver weapons of mass destruction, but he didn’t name any nation…”