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Bush Outlines Attack Response
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
By Chrisropher Newton / The Associated Press

Bush briefs congressional leaders on plans

WASHINGTON -- AP
President Bush briefed congressional leaders Tuesday on U.S. plans for a long, open-ended hunt for terrorists while the FBI said it was seeking nearly 400 people for questioning in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Bush met with Republican and Democratic leaders over breakfast at the White House. "I think the war aims are clear," said House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. "In a way, it's meeting guerrilla warfare with guerrilla warfare, but it's also meeting it with financial efforts, and political efforts, and diplomatic efforts. There's no one place that you can get this done."

There was progress on the diplomatic front. Saudi Arabia cut all ties with Afghanistan's Taliban government, saying the Central Asian country was defaming Islam by harboring and supporting terrorists.

The move leaves Pakistan as the only nation in the world to maintain ties with the Taliban. And it leaves Afghanistan's hard-line Islamic regime ever more isolated in its showdown with the United States over Osama bin Laden, the No. 1 suspect in the attacks on the United States.
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