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U.S. would not regret bin Laden’s death
WASHINGTON (AP) - If Saudi
born extremist Osama bin Laden
were killed in further American
action against his terror network, the
United States would have no regrets
about his death, Secretary of Defense
William Cohen said Sunday.
No one would weep, Cohen said,
over the death of “someone who is
that fanatical about killing innocent
human beings.”
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the
Press,” Cohen said: “If he has
declared war against the United
States, which he has; and if he is part
of the command and control of that
terror network; then if he is in the line
of fire as such, that’s his problem.”
An executive order prohibiting
assassinations has been in effect since
the Ford administration, and Clinton
administration officials have stressed
that they were not targeting bin Laden
in last Thursday’s missile attacks on
terrorist damps in Afghanistan.
Ih a simultaneous exercise, ship
fired U.S. cruise missiles targeted a
drug-manufacturing factory in
Sudan, accused by the Americans of
helping make chemical weapons.
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright said the attacks were aimed
not at bin Laden but at his command
and control facilities “and generally
against those who were involved in
this.”
“We do not think that just focus
ing on one single individual this way
proves anything,” she said on ABC’s
“This Week with Sam Donaldson and
Cokie Roberts.”
Nevertheless, officials have
stressed that the United States has
entered a new phase of aggressive
counterterrorism in which would-be
terrorists will be pursued.
“What bin Laden did was an act
of war,” Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,
said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“When you are at war, it’s not
assassination.”
Bin Laden’s group has been
blamed for bombings at die American
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that
killed 257 people.
“I think the president did
exactly the right thing,” Rep.
Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of
the House Intelligence
Committee, told Fox. He said he
had been kept advised “the whole
way,” and his only criticism was
that the factory in Sudan suspect
ed of producing chemicals for
nerve gas wasn’t bombed months
ago.
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If he has declared war against the United
States, which he has; and if he is part of the
command and control of that terror network;
then if he is in the line of fire as such, that’s
his problem.”
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U.S. secretary of defense
Sandy Berger, the White House
national security adviser, said on
CNN that all Clinton’s advisers on
security, including the secretaries of
defense and state, the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and himself, rec
ommended the operation. “The intel
ligence came together very quickly.
We saw we had a target of opportuni
ty.”
Newsweek, in its edition on
newsstands today, said the opera
tion, code-named “Infinite Reach,”
was so secret that even people in
Cohen’s office weren’t informed. It
said one factor cementing the deci
sion to move ahead with the attack
was an intercepted mobile-phone
conversation between two of bin
Laden’s lieutenants that clearly
implicated them in the embassy
bombings.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Gen. Henry Shelton, said
without naming sources that “we
had very reliable information (the
embassy bombings) might be only
the first two of three and possibly
four attacks.”
“In a matter of days it became evi
dent that bin Laden’s organization
was responsible,” Shelton said.
“That’s what drove the attack.”
East Coast
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Coast of the United States.
The increasing winds made
Bonnie a Category 3 hurricane, con
sidered capable of causing severe
coastal flooding and serious damage
to buildings and homes.
The storm moved slightly north
ward and was 190 miles east-north
east of San Salvador in the Bahamas
by Sunday afternoon, but the
National Hurricane Center in Miami
said it was expected to turn to the
northwest later Sunday.
“The computer models remain
consistent with the slow turn to the
northwest,” said Daniel Brown, a
meteorologist at the center. “It’s still
worth watching. The official forecast
has it going 250 miles east of the
Carolinas”
The coastline, Brown noted,
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was within the 300-mile margin of
^CTQr ^f aethxe^d#^ forecast Any
possible mndMI -fcould occur late
Tuesday.
Bonnie could grow stronger, but
forecasters doubted it would reach
the Category 4 level, with winds of at
least 131 mph.
Oh Sunday, rough seas caused
by the storm slammed a 40-foot sail
boat onto a beach in Grand Turk,
about 200 miles south of die storm’s
center.
The storm drove two other sail
boats onto the same beach on
Saturday. Residents rescued all 14
people on the boats, Turks and Caicos
police said.
The islands closest to the hurri
cane were expecting waves 6 to 9 feet
above normal and flooding. Boaters
headed for safe havens.
But Bonnie’s worst thunder
storms battered the open seas, said
John Guiney of the hurricane cen
ter. Her noted that Bonnie has been
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'limb that (Hatteras)
L,ignmouse and you see what kind of.strip
you ’re on, no way I’m going to stay.”
Jo Ann Childers
North Carolina resident
“very erratic ... meandering
around,” making forecasts less reli
able.
In South Florida - which will
mark the sixth anniversary of
Hurricane Andrew on Monday -
some people were preparing for
Bonnie even though forecasts said the
hurricane most likely would miss the
state.
Along the North Carolina coast,
where visions of hurricanes Fran
and Bertha from 1996 remain vivid,
some residents had a wait-and-see
attitude.
On Hatteras Island, N.C.,' tourists
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I
and residents were buying hurricane
supplies.
“When you climb that (Hatteras)
Lighthouse and you see what kind of
strip you’re on, no way I’m going to
stay,” said Jo Ann Childers, manager
of a hardware store in Avon, N.C., on
the island. “I can’t even swim. You
think I’m going to stay?”
The Atlantic Basin typically has
nine tropical storms each year with
six of them becoming hurricanes,
two of them intense. In 1997, there
were seven named storms, three
hurricanes and one intense hurri
cane.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - >
Sudan wants a public apology j |
from Washington for its missile
strike against a factory in
Khartoum, and has asked the
United Nations to investigate t
U.S. allegations that the factory
produced the ingredients for
chemical weapons.
Sudan would welcome a U.N.
inspection of the factory that U.S. ; ’
missiles destroyed Thursday, but ",
would not allow the team to
inspect any other alleged chemi
cal weapons site, Information
Minister Ghazi Salah el-Din said
at a news conference Sunday.
He confirmed that Sudan is
recalling its entire diplomatic _!
staff from Washington, but said
Sudan was not severing ties with
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U.S. action,” Salah el-Din said. \
Sudan also will take steps
against European countries that
“openly and unconditionally sup
ported the United States’ aggres
sion against Sudan,” he added.
Britain, Germany and several I
other European states backed the
U.S. strike against a pharmaceu-? ,,
tical factory in north Khartoum.. %
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attack and a simultaneous strike
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Afghanistan, in retaliation for theg 1
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embassies " in Kenya and|
Tanzania.
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Khartoum factory produced th® j
ingredients of chemical weapons:'
Sudan says it produced only anti-| j
malaria drugs and vaccines.
U.S. officials say the|
Khartoum factory belonged to a j
corporation in which the Saudi
born militant Osama bin Laden
had a stake. Washington accuses
bin Laden of instigating the
embassy bombings.
He never came near the facto
ry, and there is no way that the
factory could have produced
chemical weapons, Salah el-Din
said.
—— —- State Spotlight ——__
Parents find fault in closing
OMAHA (AP) - Three parents
feel cheated by. Nebraska officials
over the closing of die state School
for the Deaf. : ; -
They feel the state promised
~ that their children could attend the
Iowa School for the Deaf instead.
But now they find that local school
districts have the final say, and
Omaha and Blair school districts
have denied their requests, the
Omaha World-Herald reported in
Sunday editions.
The school districts argue
Omaha area schools have the staff
and expertise to teach the students.
Education Department admin
istrator Don Anderson said the state
did not intentionally mislead par
ents. He said there was a misunder
standing, and some.families felt
they would be given whatever they
chose.
Kim Pope has moved out of her
mother’s Omaha home and ipto
subsidized housing across the
Missouri River in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, so her son can attend die Iowa
School for the Deaf.
Trade Jennings sold her three
bedroom house in Omaha and
moved her family to a trailer park in
Council Bluffs.
Ronda Dry den is fighting the
Blair school district over placement
of her son, Matthew. She is keeping
her son out of school until the issue
is settled, and has hired a lawyer
who is advising her on what to do if
she is arrested for refusing to send
her son to a regular school.
About 23 former students of the
Nebraska School for the Deaf from
elsewhere in the state are enrolled
at the Iowa school, including tile
Pope and Jennings children.
Smaller school districts have few
deaf students, Anderson said, so it
makes sense for those districts to
send those students to Iowa.
The three families said they did
not realize until early June that the
Iowa school was not an option. That
was when the parents had place
ment meetings with local school
officials, who told them that local
officials had the final say.
“I felt bullied,” Pope said. “I
walked out of that building a ner
vous wreck.”
The parents said they believe
the school districts are just trying to
save the money saved by keeping
the students in Nebraska at the
expense of their children’s educa
tion.
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