AS the United States geared up for war, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned other countries that Washington would judge them by their willingness to help in an alliance against the attackers.
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"This has become a new benchmark," Mr Powell said yesterday, "a new way of measuring the relationship and what we can do together in the future and what kind of support we can provide to you across the whole range of issues and activities.

"If they are simply unresponsive, and we deem that unresponsiveness to be contributing to additional terrorism or to the fertile ground in which terrorism thrives, that will certainly affect the kind of relationship we're going to have with them."

Mr Powell spoke to senior ministers of governments worldwide - including Japan, India, Algeria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, Portugal, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Brazil, Qatar, Kuwait and South Korea - to press his case for action against extremist organisations.

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