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U.S. Response Portrayed as Calm, Methodical
Powell: Evidence Against Bin Laden Will Be Produced
By Dana Milbank and Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, September 24, 2001; Page A01
As the nation formally ended 12 days of mourning yesterday, Bush administration officials cautioned Americans not to expect a massive military response to the Sept. 11 attacks but a silent and invisible diplomatic and financial campaign aimed at crippling terrorists.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said the Bush administration is producing a document that will contain compelling evidence showing that exiled Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden and his global terrorist network, al Qaeda, were responsible for the devastating attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"I think in the near future, we'll be able to put out a paper, a document, that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking him to the attack," Powell said on the NBC news program "Meet the Press."
The remarks by Powell and other administration officials were part of an effort to portray a calm, methodical response to the terrorist assaults, buying time for the administration from an American public craving revenge. "The campaign has begun," Powell promised in remarks to two television networks yesterday, echoed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Source: washingtonpost.com
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