HughPickens.com [hughpickens.com] writes:
Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the
United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan [haaretz.com] in response to the September 11 attack according to
Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder [wikipedia.org], as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. was considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "
They had really played through all possibilities [spiegel.de]." Steiner added that Schroder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
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