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Fri 11 Apr, 2003 04:20 pm
Indian defence minister joins Pakistan pre-emptive strike chorus
Fri Apr 11, 5:53 AM ET
JODHPUR, India (AFP) - Defence Minister George Fernandes reiterated Indian warnings that Pakistan was a prime case for pre-emptive strikes.
"There are enough reasons to launch such strikes against Pakistan, but I cannot make public statements on whatever action that may be taken," Fernandes told a meeting of ex-soldiers in this northern Indian desert city on Friday.
The renewed warning came just hours after US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Washington would strive to cool tensions between nuclear enemies Pakistan and India, who have fought three wars since 1947.
Fernandes said he endorsed Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha's recent comments that India had "a much better case to go for pre-emptive action against Pakistan than the United States has in Iraq (news - web sites)."
Sinha also argued that Pakistan was "a fit case" for US military action, because it had weapons of mass destruction and terrorists.
Is this going to be a modern 100 years war, the US v. every poor nation in the world. The Mouse That Roared.
A Mouse Roared .....
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