Dean to Urge Global Anti-Terror WMD Fund; Introduce Key Advisors

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Front-running Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean, under fire from rivals for lacking national security experience, is set to propose a multibillion-dollar global fund to keep weapons of mass destruction out of terrorist hands.

The former Vermont governor, who is vying with eight other Democrats for the right to challenge President Bush in 2004, hopes to plug gaps in his resume by laying out a foreign policy portfolio and introducing key advisers on international and military issues in California on Monday.

A linchpin will be a comprehensive worldwide effort to prevent terrorism through shared intelligence, greater law enforcement cooperation, squeezing terrorist financing and more joint anti-terror operations, a campaign aide said on Saturday.

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He will call for the United States and its partners to contribute to an international fund to prevent terrorists from getting weapons of mass destruction, the aide said.

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It shows that Dean has plans and wants to use an international approach to terrorism, which is really the only way to deal with the problem. Wonder how Bush will attack this-maybe by saying the US should bankrupt itself being the big bad cop of the world.

These were pretty good ideas when he outlined them last week, and last year, and in 1997 when he wrote The New War and introduced it all.