Pentagon briefing by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld — Transcript

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1. 0:06getting close to Pearl yeah nothing when
2. 0:09you
3. 0:10say my impression of what I know thus in
4. 0:14kahar the Hope remains that tban and
5. 0:16Al-Qaeda forces will
6. 0:18surrender uh but we have reason to
7. 0:20believe that
8. 0:21Omar may have instructed his forces to
9. 0:24continue fighting which of course is
10. 0:27putting the civilian population in kahar
11. 0:29and and that region at risk indeed
12. 0:33hiding in the city the Taliban are in
13. 0:35effect using the civilian population of
14. 0:38kahar as
15. 0:41Shields capture or kill the al-Qaeda and
16. 0:45foreign Invaders in Afghanistan who are
17. 0:48terrorists
18. 0:51and there is um intelligence information
19. 0:55floating around the world in various
20. 0:56countries of various types that reflect
21. 1:00the fact that the al-Qaeda organization
22. 1:03has an interest in uh weapons of mass
23. 1:06destruction chemical biological
24. 1:08radiation as well as nuclear
25. 1:12um we uh I do not know of certain
26. 1:16knowledge precisely what kinds of
27. 1:18capabilities he may have he may have
28. 1:21actually developed and weaponized and
29. 1:24have available to them Mr secretary I
30. 1:27follow up on that point uh some us
31. 1:28officials have said that captured
32. 1:31Al-Qaeda have said that a meeting with
33. 1:33OS bin uh we we found a person who says
34. 1:38he's an American with an
35. 1:40AK-47 uh in a prison with a bunch of
36. 1:43al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters and and he
37. 1:47has
38. 1:48been characterizing his
39. 1:50circumstance and uh you can be certain
40. 1:54he will have all the rights he is
41. 1:57due uh we are looking at at the various
42. 2:00options at the present time and uh at
43. 2:03that point where we've made a decision
44. 2:05as to what we intend to do with them
45. 2:06we'll certainly let uh the appropriate
46. 2:08people know is he is he a traitor is
47. 2:13there any connection um do you all have
48. 2:14any intelligence connections between al-
49. 2:16Qaeda and what happened in Israel this