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To: dennis michael patterson who wrote (18578)	9/12/2001 7:48:48 PM
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Rumsfeld to Attackers: No Advance Warning Wednesday September 12 5:26 PM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A grim Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday that those who carried out a devastating attack on America would get no advance warning of military punishment from the United States. And he warned Pentagon (news - web sites) and government workers who discuss classified information about military plans or possible retribution that they were violating the law and risking the lives of servicemen and women. ``I guess I'm old fashioned. I am inclined to think that if you're going to cock it, you throw it. And you don't talk about it a lot,'' he told reporters, using football terms at a news conference. ``My instinct is that what you do is you go about your business and do what you think you have to do ... I don't think people ought to judge outcomes until a sufficient time has passed to address what is clearly a very serious problem for the world.'' Other defense officials told Reuters privately on Wednesday that the culprits of Tuesday's coordinated strikes by hijacked airliners against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City would be punished. ``A VERY LARGE HAMMER'' ``We have a very large hammer that can be brought to bear in a number of ways at any time,'' one of the officials said. ''That's not a threat, it's a fact.'' The officials, who asked not to be identified, noted in interviews the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise had been stopped in the Indian Ocean en route back to the United States and was awaiting possible orders to return to the Gulf to join the carrier USS Carl Vinson. Rumsfeld did not mention that report, but cautioned at his news conference against leaks of classified information to reporters. ``It seems to me that it is important to underline that when people deal with intelligence information and make it available to people who are not cleared for that classified information, the effect is to reduce the chances that the United States government has to track down and deal with the people who have perpetrated the attacks on the United States and killed so many Americans,'' he told reporters. ``When classified information dealing with operation is provided ... the inevitable effect is that the lives of men and women in uniform are put at risk, because they are the ones who will be carrying out those prospective operations.'' The aircraft carrier Vinson recently replaced the Enterprise on patrol south of Iraq and the Enterprise was stopped abruptly on Tuesday as a precautionary measure. POWERFUL CARRIER BATTLE GROUPS The move came shortly after hijackers slammed commercial aircraft into the Pentagon in suburban Washington and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York -- buildings where tens of thousands of people work. Normally, the Navy keeps only one carrier in the Gulf as a base for warplanes policing ``no-fly'' zones over southern Iraq. The Enterprise and the Vinson each carry more than 60 warplanes, and their ``battle groups'' include a total of more than a dozen escort missile-carrying surface ships and submarines. ``We have land-based aircraft, Navy carriers and other ships that can fire cruise missiles,'' said one defense official. ``We don't need to wave that threat. Everybody knows it.'' ``We will find out who is responsible for this and they will pay for it,'' said Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), adding that those responsible would get ``not only justice, but the punishment they deserve.'' President Bush (news - web sites) said on Wednesday that ``acts of war'' had been committed against the American people. While the United States laid no immediate blame for the attack, officials said exiled Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his followers were high on the suspect list. Bin Laden, who is accused of masterminding previous anti-American attacks, including the bombing of embassies in Africa, is believed to be living in a remote area of Afghanistan (news - web sites) under the protection of the Taliban. Concerned over a repeat of U.S. cruise missile attacks in reprisals on Afghanistan that followed the 1998 embassy attacks in Africa, the ruling Taliban, a radical Islamic group, issued hasty denials that the man they describe as their guest was capable of mounting such a vast coordinated conspiracy.