'Poland is in a state of war' says Secretary of National Security Council

Marek Siwiec, Secretary of the National Security Council (RBN), let slip that "Poland is in a state of war", though he later qualified this as not implying a state of war under the constitution. The comments came after yesterday's National Security Council debate, led by President Aleksander Kwasniewski, on Poland's position after the terrorist attack on the US. Marek Siwiec told journalists that since an ally had been attacked, and Poland supported NATO's response to that attack, the enemies of the United States had become our enemies. Siwiec also announced that once the enemy is known, Poland "will use all its powers to try to fight against it". He explained that although the Americans have so far only asked for a close cooperation of intelligence services, "we are ready to make available to the allies all that is at our disposal". (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) P.W.