Rumsfeld says remarks on Hussein-Al Qaeda link &#39;misunderstood&#39;
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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was forced to go into damage control mode Monday hours after a statement he made began to spread through the media.
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The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports that it had killed al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
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The panel headed by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger found that actions by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld contributed to confusion over what techniques were permissible for interrogating prisoners in Iraq.
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The U.S. military said on Saturday that reports that Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been detained in Iraq were not credible.
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The man speaking on the tape also referred to a statement last month in which al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, declared allegiance to bin Laden and changed his group&#39;s name to al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared Monday to back off earlier statements suggesting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda.
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The connection between Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was cemented with Mr. bin Laden&#39;s latest taped statement on Tuesday
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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld greeted U.S...
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday brushed aside a question over whether he intends to remain in the Cabinet during President George W. Bush&#39;ssecond term, saying
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - U.S. Defense Secretary   Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday there was no way to measure if   more Islamic extremists were being created than killed in   American-led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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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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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a key Senate chairman signaled on Tuesday that they favor a slower, more cautious approach to revamping the US intelligence network than has been advocated by the Sept. 11 commission.
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Saddam Hussein had no ties with Al-Qaeda or key operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the Iraq war, a US Senate report said, undercutting pre-invasion claims by the administration of President George W. Bush and igniting a new political row.
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Before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein misjudged the U.S. military strategy and thought the United States would launch only several days of airstrikes and not a full-scale ground invasion, according to a television interview with the FBI agent who interrogated the former Iraqi leader for seven months.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned yesterday that "moral and intellectual confusion" over the Iraq war and the broader anti-terrorism effort could sap American willpower and divide the country, and he urged renewed resolve to confront extremists waging "a new type of fascism."
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Looking more subdued than during most of his public appearances at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to a barrage of criticism Wednesday by saying
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The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, today attempted to distance himself from his earlier comments that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.