- Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the
US-led drive to topple Saddam Hussein, told a French newspaper that Washington
had not run out of countries to target as part of the war against terrorism.
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- "The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq
are part of efforts to fight against terrorism," Mr Perle told Les
Echos.
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- "We are not going to stop there. We shall continue
to fight against countries who harbour terrorists and develop weapons of
mass destruction."
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- He said the UN Security Council was ill-suited to dealing
with such threats and should be reformed.
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- He also asked whether France, which led the anti-war
lobby and ensured Washington could not get United Nations approval for
its assault on Iraq, should be allowed to stay in the NATO alliance without
being part of its military structure.
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- "The Security Council was created to manage classic
crises, such as Germany invading Poland or France with divisions of Panzer
tanks," he said.
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- "This institution is incapable of dealing with the
toughest problems of our time, such as the fight against terrorism or proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction."
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- It was time to consider revising the UN's charter, he
added, noting such a task would be "extraordinarily complex".
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- Meanwhile, Ted Turner, the man who built CNN television,
yesterday accused the media mogul Rupert Murdoch of promoting the war in
Iraq.
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- "He's a warmonger," Mr Turner said in an evening
speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "He promoted it."
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- Fox News Channel, owned by Mr Murdoch, has been the most
popular US cable news network during the conflict, trumping AOL Time Warner's
CNN, which Mr Turner started more than two decades ago and came to prominence
with its blanket coverage of the 1991 Gulf war.
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