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Source: The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=503437
Rumsfeld 'wanted to bomb Iraq' after 9/11
By Ted Bridis in Washington
21 March 2004
Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, urged President Bush to
consider bombing Iraq almost immediately after the 11 September 2001
terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, says a former senior aide.
Richard Clarke, the White House counter-terrorism coordinator at the time,
has revealed details of a meeting the day after the attacks during which
officials considered the US response. Already, he said, they were certain
al-Qa'ida was to blame and there was no hint of Iraqi involvement. "Rumsfeld
was saying we needed to bomb Iraq," Mr Clarke said. "We all said, 'No, no,
al-Qa'ida is in Afghanistan.'"
But Mr Clarke, who is expected to testify on Tuesday before a federal panel
reviewing the attacks, said Mr Rumsfeld complained in the meeting that
"there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good
targets in Iraq." A spokesman for Mr Rumsfeld last night said he could not
comment immediately.
Mr Clarke makes the assertion in a book, Against All Enemies, published
tomorrow. In an interview for CBS's 60 Minutestonight he says he believes
the administration sought to link Iraq with the attacks because of a
long-standing interest in overthrowing Saddam Hussein. "I think they wanted
to believe that there was a connection" between Iraq and the al-Qa'ida
attacks in the US, he says. "There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was
supporting al-Qa'ida."
Mr Clarke also criticised Mr Bush for now promoting his efforts against
terrorism."Frankly, I find it outrageous that the President is running for
re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about
terrorism," he told CBS. "He ignored terrorism for months."
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