Rumsfeld: &quot;no hard evidence&quot; of link between Iraq, al-Qaida
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged Monday he has seen no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the al-Qaida network, despite
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NEW YORK - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he does not expect civil war in Iraq and pointed to the recent retaking of the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra as evidence of progress in stabilizing the country before elections in January.   "I don't think it's going to happen," Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations when asked about the threat of civil war...
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WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a statement saying he was misunderstood in a speech in New York when he said he had seen no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and al
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A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links
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Backing away from his pre-war assertions, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he has seen no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, under fire from critics for his handling of Iraq, on Tuesday vigorously defended the U.S. war on terrorism and ruled out negotiation with Muslim extremists.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at a military base in northern Iraq where an insurgent's attack killed 14 US troops and eight other people earlier this week.
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Vice President Dick Cheney has linked prewar Iraq with al Qaeda in the vice-presidential debate, despite assessments from the CIA and the September 11 Commission that have found no conclusive tie.
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In the run-up to last year&#39;s invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration frequently cited alleged but largely circumstantial links between Osama bin Laden&#39;s terror network and a
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gestures during a news conference on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said Tuesday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier  that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam  Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
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Donald Rumsfeld was at his laconic best at a New York thinktank on Monday when he said there was no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking al-Qaida to Iraq.
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Syria on Thursday rejected Iraqi accusations that it and Iran were supporting al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq. Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Wednesday that Iranian and Syrian intelligence agents
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday on an unannounced visit to an air base north of Baghdad that the new Iraqi government is not yet ready to decide on security issues that will determine the pace of U.S. troop reductions this year.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld   said on Wednesday that American operations in Iraq would end   when Iraqi security forces were able to take over the job, but   he would not estimate when that might be.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that he knew of no âstrong, hard evidenceâ linking Saddam Husseinâs Iraq and al-Qaida, despite describing extensive contacts between the two before the invasion of Iraq.
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Ayman al- Zawahiri, second in command of al-Qaida, said last night that the US faced defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a videotape broadcast by the Arab satellite television station al-Jazeera, he said: &quot;The