Rumsfeld: Al Qaeda to strike again
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SINGAPORE -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has warned Asian nations that al Qaeda will strike the region again.
In a speech to an Asia-Pacific security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Rumsfeld pressed Asia to become more involved in the global war on terror.
Rumsfeld pledged closer military support and security ties with Washington, but denied the Bush administration was pressuring Asian nations to support the coalition in Iraq.
"Let there be no doubt, there is more to come," he cautioned despite some success in capturing al Qaeda figures in Asia and foiling some plots.
Of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Rumsfeld said: "Despite considerable progress, the reality is that today we remain closer to the beginning of this struggle than to its end."
Rumsfled told defense ministers, military officials, lawmakers and private security experts at the conference there was still a lot that remained unknown about the war on terrer. He also hinted at some frustration in measuring the success of the fight against terrorism.
"What we don't know is what's coming in the intake, how many more of those folks are being trained, developed, organized and deployed and sent out to work the scenes, the shadows and the caves," he said.
Rumsfeld said the battle was also against ideological extremism and advised that any nation hoping to make a separate peace with terrorists would be mistaken, just as were some European nations who had aimed to appease Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/rumsfeld.asia/
"Rumsfeld said the battle was also against ideological extremism and advised that any nation hoping to make a separate peace with terrorists would be mistaken, just as were some European nations who had aimed to appease Adolf Hitler in the 1930s."
Sounds like the first point I made when Spain turned cowards.
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