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Rumsfeld Urges NATO Rapid-Reaction Force

'Able to respond to a problem in a matter of days'

Saturday, September 21, 2002
(3:15 PM ET) (19:15 GMT)
The Cable News Network

"There are other countries that have indicated either publicly or privately that they're in a position to be quite cooperative with respect to what the United States might or might not do with respect to Iraq."

WASHINGTON -- CNN
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saturday that he will propose next week to NATO that it create a rapid-reaction force.

"My proposal is really no different than the kind of thing we've been doing here in the United States," Rumsfeld told CNN Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre in an interview.

He'll be suggesting, he said, "that one of the transformational things NATO could do would be to develop a quick reaction force that would be able to respond to a problem in a matter of days, rather than weeks or months, and to have the kind of agility to deal with the types of problems that exist today."
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