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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44537)	9/6/2003 3:32:19 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld criticized the U.S. news media today for ignoring "the story of success and accomplishment" in Iraq and said the speed of improvements here "dwarfs any other experience I'm aware of," including Germany and Japan after World War II. Speaking in a marble-walled palace adjacent to Baghdad's international airport, Rumsfeld said the impact of continued attacks against U.S. forces had been overstated and likened them to isolated terrorist violence "in every country in the world." Rumsfeld's optimistic assessment was repeated during visits with Iraqi officials in Mosul and chipper members of a newly formed civil defense force in Tikrit, and in a video address to the Iraqi people in which he said, "The changes that have taken place . . . are extraordinary." "The coalition will not be dissuaded from its mission in Iraq -- not by sabotage, not by snipers, and not by terrorists with car bombs," Rumsfeld said in the taped address. The secretary's sentiments were echoed by the U.S. civilian administrator and the top U.S. military commander in Iraq. "It is disturbing to me when I watch the news -- the focus on the bad," said Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. "We ought to make sure America knows that their sons' and daughters' sacrifices are for a good cause." Asked about a spate of car bombings, which included a blast last month at the U.N. headquarters that killed 24, Sanchez said, "There is no tactical threat, no strategic threat to the coalition." But he then went on to describe the situation facing U.S. forces in what is known as the Sunni triangle around Baghdad as a "low-intensity conflict, terrorist threat" that included "more sophisticated" tactics and devices.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44537)	9/6/2003 3:52:47 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The words of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell are matched by dees on grounds, the alliances sewn by Bush are working, helping make world a safer place.... Army ’copters hunt for Taliban in Bannu, Kohat PESHAWAR: Military helicopters circled mountainous terrain, bordering Afghanistan, on Friday in an operation, aimed at keeping out Taliban militants, a senior security source said. Residents saw about 15 helicopters flying in a 40-kilometre stretch between Bannu and the nearby Kohat airbase. The army has also commandeered the disused the Bannu airstrip, where about 10 military helicopters have appeared, and troops have set up a security cordon in a four-kilometre radius. "No civilian is allowed near the airport," a local resident told AFP. Unusual military activity has continued in Bannu since late on Wednesday, raising speculation that a major operation against Taliban or al-Qaeda remnants is under way. Security sources said that the exercise was aimed at securing the area, which adjoins Pakistan’s semiautonomous regions of North and South Waziristan, opposite the Afghan provinces of Paktika and Khost. "The exercise is aimed at pre-empting any intrusion of Taliban into the Pakistani territory," a senior security source told AFP. "It is part of a routine military exercise and we do not share information about such exercises with the media," military spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told AFP. "We can conduct such exercises anywhere, in deserts and mountains, in any part of the country."