Rumsfeld Says No Iraq Self-Security Date
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday he does not know when the United States will have trained enough Iraqis so they can adequately secure the country and begin replacing American troops now helping provide protection.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld greeted U.S. Marines at this dusty air field in Iraq's western desert Sunday morning, telling them it was unlikely the United States would pull out any troops before Iraq's elections in January.
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WASHINGTON -- Elections will take place throughout Iraq in January with no exceptions, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday, contradicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's suggestion that the first democratic poll may not be held in some regions controlled by insurgents.
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WASHINGTON Senator John McCain declined on Sunday to endorse the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and questioned whether the planned increase in US forces in Iraq would provide enough security for the country&#39;s elections on Jan. 30.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed hope yesterday, but did not explicitly predict, that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of President Bush's second term.
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The head of Iraq&#39;s armed forces said Sunday that last week&#39;s suicide bombing on a US base was not carried out by a member of Iraq&#39;s security
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June. Speaking to 1,500 Marines at an air base he said the insurgent violence is likely
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U.S. intelligence agencies have  failed to provide any reliable estimates of the size of Iraq's  insurgency, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on  Wednesday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on  Thursday raised the possibility that Iraq could conduct only  limited elections in January, excluding places where violence  was considered too severe for people to go to polls.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he knew of no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq and al Qaeda, despite describing extensive contacts between the two before the Iraq invasion.
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NEW YORK - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today there is no &quot;hard evidence&quot; linking deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.
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The United States is unlikely to   begin cutting its troops in Iraq until at least mid-2007 as   they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into   civil war, a senior general said on Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed hope Monday, but did not explicitly predict, that American troops would be out of Iraq by the end of President Bush&#39;s second term.
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Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections. &quot;They know they cannot defeat us militarily.
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President Bush has asked Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay on in Bush's second term to  keep running the Iraq war and adapting the U.S. military to  face post-Cold War threats like terrorism, a senior Bush  administration official said on Friday.
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The Pentagon has acknowledged that Donald H. Rumsfeld did not sign condolence letters to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq, but it said that from now on the embattled defense secretary would stop the use of signing machines and would pick up the pen himself.
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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will speak at a conference in Munich this weekend after the German prosecutor's office announced Thursday that it would not pursue a request to investigate war-crimes allegations against him arising from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, U.S. defense officials said.