6A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WORLD
WEDNESDAY, OCT.3, 2001
kansan.com
Britain joins U.S., warns Taliban
The Associated Press
BRIGHTON, England — Prime Minister Tony Blair forcefully made the case for an assault on Afghanistan's Taliban regime, warning yesterday that they must "surrender the terrorists or surrender power."
In an emotional speech to his Labor Party, Blair positioned Britain squarely with the United States and delivered the toughest warning yet by a European leader.
The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, dismissed the threats by the United States and its allies, telling a news conference in Quetta, Pakistan, "Only Allah changes the regime, and only
Allah brings the others instead of us."
The White House welcomed Blair's remarks.
The British prime minister spoke just hours after President Bush had warned that "there will be a consequence" if the Taliban failed to turn over Osama bin Laden and his network and destroy his training camps. U.S. officials said the White House had coordinated with Blair about what he would say.
Speaking to 3,000 delegates at his party's annual conference, Blair said the Taliban had ignored demands to hand over bin Laden, prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, but he stopped short of declaring that military strikes against Afghanistan were inevitable.
"I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists, or surrender power. It's your choice," Blair said.
"Be in no doubt, bin Laden and his people organized this atrocity," the prime minister said. "The Taliban aid and abet him. He will not desist from further acts of terror. They will not stop helping him."
"Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater," Blair said.
New Irish bill could allow some abortions
The Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland — Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern yesterday reopened one of the most divisive arguments in this predominantly Roman Catholic country — when, if ever, doctors should be allowed to perform abortions.
After nearly a decade of political debate and delay, Ahern published the Human Life and Pregnancy Bill, which, if approved, would allow doctors to terminate pregnancies when women's lives were at risk, except in instances of threatened suicide.
Yesterday's bill also would legalize the so-called morning after pill, taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. Women seeking the pills now have
to order them from Northern Ireland or Britain.
The bill also proposed creating a new government-financed crisis pregnancy agency that Ahern said would offer "caring, practical intervention" in hopes of reducing the approximately 6,500 women who travel each year to Britain for abortions.
Ahern said the bill was designed to reconcile conflicting demands in the country's constitution, which bars all abortions, and a 1992 Supreme Court judgment that an abortion should be permitted when a woman might otherwise die.
"We welcome the fact there'll be a referendum, and that there's very definite pro-life overtones in the whole package," said Des Hanafin, a veteran campaigner against abortion.
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