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To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (41926)	12/11/2001 7:50:26 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Rumsfield had nothing but praises... .... for Pakistan..the country accused by NYT as 'Pakistan Ended Aid to Taliban Only Hesitantly'.. share nonsense..Gul, Aziz and others in this report are history, they are bunch of nuts. Rumsfield..''He was all praise for the support given by Pakistan in this endeavour. ‘Pakistan has been very cooperative in numerous ways‘, Rumsfeld said and virtually snubbed an Indian journalists who keeps on rubbing anti-Pakistan questions.'' ‘That is simply not true’, Rumsfeld said apparently in an angry tone when the journalist said the Wall Street Journal and his own Washington-based weekly had reported that Pakistan sent two helicopters to lift detained Pakistani Taliban in Kunduz. Today Rumsfeld kept open the possibility of sending some captured al-Qaeda members to the country of their origin adding that US was doing that only because it was convinced that these countries have the same attitude towards terrorists as the United States. Others may be kept in Afghanistan and some brought to the United States to face justice, he added. Rumsfeld added the danger to US and other forces in Afghanistan was greater now than ever before as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were on the run, hiding in caves, mountains and cities. ‘A wounded animal can be dangerous,’ Rumsfeld said. ‘They can escape across borders and regroup then plot to strike again.’ He said the United States was still uncertain where Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was, but stressed that ‘We intend to pursue him until we find him.’ The whereabouts of Osama bin Laden were also a mystery, he said. US forces had dropped their largest conventional bomb — a 7.5-tonne (15,000-pound) ‘daisy cutter’ — over the weekend near a cave in eastern Afghanistan hoping to kill al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama.