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To: Jill who wrote (5612)	10/16/2001 4:19:59 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Taliban Leader Is Target in U.S. Air Campaign nytimes.com Remember the first casualty. But even before that, the United States military was trying to train its crosshairs on the Taliban leader. According to a report in The New Yorker, an armed drone had the mullah in its sight. The attack, the magazine said, was delayed when the head of the United States Central Command, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, voiced concern about killing people near the mullah, who eluded attack, the magazine said. A senior administration official, however, disputed the idea that General Franks had delayed the attack, saying said the issue was referred to the White House. Reports by CBS and NBC News also say that Mr. Bush personally approved the strike, but that the mullah avoided attack. At a briefing with Gen. Richard B. Myers of the Air Force, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mr. Rumsfeld declined to comment on the article in The New Yorker, saying the United States had a chance to kill mullah. The secretary, however, did discuss the problem of pinpointing the Taliban leaders and stressed that the effort would sometimes need to be based on imperfect information. "It is practically impossible to know with certainty who is on the ground in any given location by name and serial number," Mr. Rumsfeld said.