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...that he'll never have to. In the upper echelons of Washington, D.C., where one might expect the most heated of responses to the Walker case, there is a perceptible push to withhold a verdict. This week, President Bush referred to Walker as "this poor fellow," and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told reporters his fate would be decided "in good time...
...Afghanistan - is coming soon. The Marines are on the ground, holding down the airfield outside the city with help Army, Navy and Air Force personnel. U.S. bombing raids Sunday and Monday succeeded in destroying all but one route in and out. Equipment is pouring in. And in Washington, Donald Rumsfeld used another Sunday-talkie appearance to warn Americans that their sons and daughters in uniform are "entering a very dangerous aspect of this conflict." In other words, prepare for casualties...
After Sept. 11, we saw the president, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld all working with other nations, with the military and with intelligence to help us get through our current international crisis...
...Dostum's fortress. The Northern Alliance had promised amnesty for Afghan Taliban fighters; the foreigners were a problem. The U.S. had made clear during the siege of Kunduz that it would not accept any outcome that allowed Al Qaeda operatives to escape to other countries - they should, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said bluntly, "either be killed or taken prisoner." Dostum had taken the captives to his fortress, announcing that he would hand them over to the United Nations after processing. Exactly how he planned to do this was unclear, since there is currently no UN security presence in Afghanistan...
...mile coastline, inhospitable, warlord-dominated terrain and the near total absence of government authority make it perfect bin Laden country. And the U.S. believes there's already an association: "Somalia has been a place that has harbored al Qaeda and, to my knowledge, still is," Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said Tuesday. And in this era of zero-tolerance, that's fighting talk...