U.S. Asks NATO Allies for More Intelligence Help

Briefing NATO allies on the U.S. campaign against terrorism, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said more information is needed on how to find Osama bin Laden and his followers.

In private sessions with 18 NATO partners and Russia, Wolfowitz emphasized nonmilitary options, participants said.

Even when military strikes do come, he said, the principal objective at first might be to obtain additional information, participants said. Among the possibilities are strikes to shake up suspected hide-outs rather than kill people.

“I think it can’t be stressed enough that everybody who’s waiting for military action . . . needs to rethink this,” Wolfowitz said at a news conference later. “We don’t believe in just demonstrating that our military is capable of bombing. The whole world knows that.”