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Gates Expands Bush Doctrine

http://www.truthout.org/102908Jhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/washington/29gates.html
Thom Shanker, The New York Times: "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tuesday that the United States would hold 'fully accountable' any country or group that helped terrorists to acquire or use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. The statement was the Bush administration's most expansive yet in attempting to articulate a vision of deterrence for the post-Sept. 11 world. It went beyond the cold war notion that a president could respond with overwhelming force against a country that directly attacked the United States or its allies with unconventional weapons."

US Raids Ignore International Law

http://www.truthout.org/102808R
Matt Renner and Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "While US officials continue to avoid discussing the weekend strikes that killed eight people in eastern Syria, Middle East experts have condemned the attacks as a violation of international law that threatens to further destabilize US-Syria relations."

Pakistan Protests U.S. Attacks Within Its Borders

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/asia/30pstan.html
By Jane Perlez (NYT, 29 Oct 08) Pakistani officials said they had told the U.S. ambassador that strikes on militants should be “stopped immediately.”