Wednesday, September 6 2006 11:25 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Washington: Asserting that the US will persist in tracking down terrorists and never bow down to tyrants, President George W Bush yesterday (Sept 5, 2006)released a document containing strategies that his Administration has been using since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

In essence kicking off the Republican campaign for the Congressional elections of 2006, Bush said US was determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to "outlaw regimes" and described the proliferation network led by former Pakistani top scientist A Q Khan, which Washington helped dismantle, as the "most dangerous nuclear trading cartel" of the world.

Describing the document The National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism as the 'unclassified version' of the strategy followed by the Administration since 9/11, he said, "America did not seek this global struggle but we're answering history's call with confidence and a clear strategy."

The US was determined to see that terrorists did not get the support of outlaw nations and determined to deny terrorist networks control of any nation or territory within a nation, he told Military Officers Association of America.

He said Washington was working to deny terrorists new recruits--by defeating their hateful ideology and spreading the hope of freedomby spreading the hope of freedom across the Middle East.

On dismantling A Q Khan's nuclear blackmarket, Bush said, "Working with Great Britain and Pakistan and other nations, the United States shut down the world's most dangerous nuclear trading cartel, the A Q Khan network. This network had supplied Iran and Libya and North Korea with equipment and know-how that advanced their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons."