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RUMSFELD: 'We'll Find' All Living Terrorists
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
(2:55 AM MT)
By Matt Kelley
Associated Press Writer

The war in Afghanistan has claimed 39 American lives, including 16 during combat or other hostile situations. About 10,000 U.S. soldiers remain in Afghanistan, hunting for terrorists and helping the interim government of President Hamid Karzai.

WASHINGTON -- AP
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pledged anew Monday that the United States will track down Osama bin Laden and other top leaders of his al-Qaida terrorist network.

"If they are alive and well, we'll eventually find them," Rumsfeld said during a news briefing to mark one year since the war in Afghanistan began.

Rumsfeld said he was not frustrated that bin Laden remains on the loose. Al-Qaida and Taliban leaders have managed to conceal themselves from U.S. surveillance, he said.

An audiotape aired Sunday by the Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera includes a voice, said to be bin Laden's, warning America of more violence. Rumsfeld said he did not know if the tape was real. There were no indications of when the tape was made, he said.
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