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Myers Discusses Mideast Terror, Iraq and the Way Ahead in Afghanistan
Sunday, April 7, 2002
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

The capture of the No. 2 man in the al Qaeda organization, Abu Zubaydah, is an example of the type of cooperation needed. Led by Pakistan and aided by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence personnel, the capture illustrates that all instruments of U.S. national power are being wielded against terror. He said this type of cooperation is not limited to Pakistan, but is occurring all over the world.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
America's top military leader said there is probably an infrastructure behind the terrorist bombings in the Middle East and that al Qaeda is still a viable force.

Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on the April 6 CNN Novak, Hunt and Shields interview program that the events in Israel do not change the goals of America's war on terrorism.

"What we've said from the very start is the goals of the global war on terrorism are against international terrorist organizations, those nation-states or others that support them and against those who have weapons of mass destruction that might fall into terrorist hands," he said.

Myers was questioned about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's statements linking Iran, Iraq and Syria to attacks on civilians in Israel. "I think what the secretary was saying was that beautiful young lady that was a suicide bomber ... didn't just wake up that morning and decide to put on a bomb costume," Myers said.
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