2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 6, 2004 NATION/WORLD CIA: Iraq was never imminent threat NEWS IN BRIEF ! ';I: WASHINGTON (AP) - Intelligence analysts never told President Bush before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hus- sein's rule posed an imminent threat, CIA Director George Tenet said yester- day in a heated defense of agency find- ings central to the decision to go to war. Also yesterday, an administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.) would be one of nine members on the panel to look into the Iraq intel- ligence. The urgency of the Iraqi threat was Bush's main argument for the war. But the president said yesterday he still would have invaded Iraq if he'd known no weapons stockpiles existed - adding a new element to the much-debated question of whether the United States went to war based on faulty assumptions. Tenet, addressing such questions for the first time after weeks of silence, acknowledged that analysts believed before the war that Saddam had chemi- cal and biological weapons, although none have been found. He said he believes some of what U.S. intelligence predicted about Iraq will turn out to have been right - and some wrong - as is often the case in such matters. He made clear that analysts dif- fered among themselves all along on important aspects of Saddam's chem- ical, biological and nuclear programs and spelled out those disputes in an October 2002 intelligence estimate given to the White House. "They never said there was an immi- nent threat" Tenet said in a speech at Georgetown University. "Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policy-makers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly sur- prise us and threaten our interests." Tenet's remarks hit back at his for- mer special adviser on Iraqi weapons, David Kay, who said last month "we were almost all wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The comments also seemed designed to inoculate the CIA from becoming a scapegoat in the fight over whether the war was justified. Speaking in Charleston, S.C., Bush acknowledged that the weapons have not been found, although investigators have discovered evidence of possible pro- grams. He said the war was still justified. Bush was expected to announce today the panel, which will look at the Iraq intelligence and weapons proliferation issues worldwide. Republicans on the Senate Intelli- gence Committee, are also completing work on a report detailing intelligence mistakes. -n 'A ii~ - r* a. p s ipv p . ai. ip ~N I t i wuKfl , Im j. BAGHDAD, Iraq: Forces arrest more than 100 Iraq suspects U.S. and Iraqi forces captured more than 100 suspected guerrillas in raids across the country yesterday, arresting one of Saddam Hussein's intel- ligence chiefs and another Iraqi believed to have been involved in a suicide bombing last month, a U.S. commander said. The raids occurred as daily attacks on U.S. forces are climbing after a recent lull. Rebels lobbed a mortar shell yesterday at a checkpoint near Baghdad International Airport, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding another, the U.S. command said. The attack outside the airport, which serves as a major American military base, brought to 529 the number of American troops killed since the Iraq war began March 20. American forces are also tracking a shadowy militant group that claimed responsibility for Sunday's back-to-back suicide bombings, said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt. The bombings, which devastated gatherings at Kurdish polit- ical offices in the northern city of Irbil, killed at least 109 people, including sen- ior Kurdish politicians who were strong U.S. allies. A statement from a group calling itself the Ansar al-Sunna Army said it target- ed the "dens of the devils" because of the Kurds' ties to the United States. S 0 WASHINGTON Investigators widen search for toxin source CIA Director George Tenet speaks at Georgetown University in Washington yesterday. Tenet said U.S. analysts never claimed before the war that Iraq posed an imminent threat. Pakistani president pardons nuke scientist Investigators expanded their search yesterday for the source of ricin dis- covered on Capitol Hill after intensive testing of a Senate office mailroom failed to turn up the deadly poison's origin. The ricin was discovered in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office. Law enforcement officials say no letter or note has been found indicating how it got there, who was behind it and whether the Tennessee Republican was the target. "We're not at the point in time where we can say how it was delivered," said Michael Mason, assistant FBI director in charge of the Washington field office. "We have not found a hot letter." Mail has been the primary focus of the probe since Monday, when an intern found a small amount of ricin on a mail-sorting machine in Frist's office. But no further ricin or other evidence was in the stacks of letters nearby. Because no answers have come from mail or items in the mailroom, investigators now must consider if the ricin was placed on the machine by someone or if it had spilled out of an older letter and been there for a long time. If so, investigators would have to trace the paths of these older letters, some of which may have been destroyed. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf par- doned the father of Pakistan's nuclear program yesterday for giving technolo- gy to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The Pakistani leader's pardon headed off a showdown with the political and religious groups which strongly opposed punishment for Abdul Qadeer Khan. Musharraf accepted the scientist's plea for mercy after he admitted the leaks in a televised apology. "There's a written appeal from his side and there's a pardon written from my side," Musharraf said at a news conference. Details of the pardon were not made public, including whether Khan would have to repay any of the money he received for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets. Earlier yesterday, the Cabinet had sent a recommendation to Musharraf that Khan be pardoned for selling nuclear secrets. In a televised apology Wednesday after meeting Musharraf, Khan accept- ed full responsibility for nuclear leaks he said were made without government knowledge or approval and asked for forgiveness. Two weeks ago, Musharraf vowed to move against proliferators he con- demned as "enemies of the state," but a decision to prosecute Khan would have outraged many Pakistanis. Yesterday, Musharraf said he had sought to balance Pakistan's domes- tic interests and international demands that proliferation activities be brought to light. "Whatever I have done, I have tried to shield him," Musharraf said of Khan, a national hero. But the president said "one has to balance between interna- tional requirements and shielding." "You cannot shield a hero and dam- age the nation," the president said. Musharraf refused to give further details about the pardon, a decision that he said was made on the recom- mendation of the National Command Authority - which controls the coun- try's nuclear assets - and the Cabinet. Asked about Khan's motives, Mushar- raf said; "What is the motive of people? Money, obviously. That's the reality." He said Pakistan wouldn't submit to any U.N. supervision of its weapons program, and that no documents would be handed over to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. He also ruled out an independent investigation of the mili- tary's role in proliferation. However, he said the IAEA was wel- come to come and discuss the prolifer- ation issue with Pakistan. "We are open and we will tell them everything," Musharraf said. Director-General Mohamed El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters before the pardon was announced that it wasn't up to him to comment on "whether (Khan) would be pardoned, apprehended or decorated." A trial of Khan could have uncov- ered embarrassing revelations about top government and military officials. 6 6 University of Michigan Great Career Opportunties, inSales! Information Session Tuesday, February 10 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Michigan League Michigan Room, 2nd Floor. ROME Poultry vaccinations could stop bird flu U.N. agencies backed targeted poul- try vaccination yesterday as part of a broader strategy to combat the bird flu ravaging Asia's farms, saying it could avoid some of the economically devas- tating consequences of mass slaughter while still protecting human health. Experts ending a two-day conference on the crisis said the epidemic is so widespread that some governments cannot afford to compensate farmers, many of whom are resisting killing off healthy birds. They said that when it comes to infected birds, slaughter is the solution, but that under some circumstances vac- cination of healthy birds could help stop the spread of the disease. JERUSALEM Sharon questioned about bribery case Police questioned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for more than two hours yesterday about a bribery case that could force him out of office, as criticism grew that his surprise proposal to remove Israeli settle- ments in Gaza was meant to deflect atten- tion from the scandal. The prime minister again denied wrongdoing, Israel TV said. Sharon told investigators he did not know of a lucrative marketing contract his son Gilad signed with a real estate develop- er despite apparent lack of experience needed for the job, the report said. Meanwhile, Israeli forces in about 30 vehicles entered the town of Jenin at the northern edge of the West Bank late yesterday, exchanging heavy fire with Palestinian gunmen. SAN DIEGO Corkscrew in brain could stop strokes A tiny experimental corkscrew threaded deep into the brain can pluck out deadly blood clots and stop a stroke in its tracks, potentially giv- ing doctors an entirely new tool against this major killer. Nearly 90 percent of all strokes result from clots that lodge in, the brain's arteries, cutting off circulation and starving brain cells of oxygen and nutrition. The goal of the new device is to extract these clots before they do permanent harm. "It's like pulling the cork out of a wine bottle," said Sidney Starkman, co- director of the UCLA Stroke Center. "What you want is to get the blood flowing back to the brain." - Compiled from Daily wire reports. :y nation's leading cO(oany NEWS AMERICA MARKETI[NG, :l NEWS C Oi.VOFr~ION C ONO'A NY 0 Closed interview schedule. If interested, submit your resume K via Mployment by February 12th to be considered for pre-selection. 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