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Rumsfield Says Some al-Qaida Leaders Have Been Killed
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
The Associated Press

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark said bombers are trying to work systematically through the complex system of caves.

WASHINGTON -- AP
U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan have killed some leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network but not the most senior ones, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.

He said three weeks of U.S. airstrikes have taken a toll on the Taliban's military and the al-Qaida network that the Bush administration says was behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Some midlevel terrorist leaders also were killed in the U.S. bombing, he added.

''To our knowledge, none of the very top six, eight, 10 people have been included in that,'' Rumsfeld told a Pentagon news conference.
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