have had some forces in northern Iraq for some time, not associated with what's going on right now. But in terms of any large numbers, they are not. |
have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas. |
have not done what the Pakistan government has done -- put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country. |
He certainly is the secretary-general and he has a voice and a role. On the other hand, until President Bush went to the U.N., the U.N. was quite happy with the way things were, |
He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage, |
He is not able to effectively run his safe haven in Afghanistan, and our goal was to take the Taliban government out and to make sure that Afghanistan was not a sanctuary for terrorists, |
He set up the special unit [and] this team, all operating under aliases, went around the world and did what they had to do. |
He was extracted from Afghanistan with a small number of his senior supporters and fighters, I believe for consultation in Pakistan, and undoubtedly will be going back in there at that point where those consultations are completed, |
He will either deal with the problem of disarming or he will tell the world community that he is unwilling to -- and the next choice, as the president has suggested, is with the United Nations and the members of the Security Council, |
He's either dead, or he's incapacitated, or he's healthy and cowering in some tunnel someplace trying to avoid being caught. What else can one say? |
helping bring the people of Iraq to a great future. |
Here was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all, |
His forces continue to surrender and capitulate. His regime is running out of real soldiers. And soon all that will be left will be the war criminals, |
his gratitude for their service to their country. |
his strategy and plans in Iraq in detail. |