World News 07-11-2001 Bush Threat: `You Are Either With Us Or Against Us` who: George W Bush what: Says Osama bin Laden nmust not be stopped before he gets nuclear weapons where: Washington DC when: Yesterday snippet: "President Bush yesterday delivered his most belligerent speech since the wavering US bombing campaign began," says The Guardian, "issuing two extraordinary messages to his allies as he tried to keep them in line." He began by giving "a bone-chilling description of the consequences if Osama bin Laden should have nuclear weapons" and then threatened America`s wavering allies that they would "be held accountable for inactivity". "Some nations don`t want to contribute troops we understand that," he said in a televised address. "But all nations, if they want to fight terrorism, must do something... You are either with us or against us." Tony Blair will be in Washington DC today to brief the president on the results of his Middle East mission last week and his impromptu European summit at Downing Street at the weekend. Meanwhile, hot on the heels of Britain`s foreign secretary Jack Straw, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has gone to Moscow "to focus the coalition`s diplomatic campaign on Russia," says The Independent. "US aircraft are now flying up to 120 sorties a day as they work closely with the Northern Alliance," explains The Times, following a Pentagon announcement that 15,000lb fuel-air bombs, with the destructive power of a small nuclear device, have been dropped on the Taliban front-line. The allies intend to capture the city of Mazar-i Sharif to uses as "a key staging-post and airbase from which to conduct operations through the winter." [... more]

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