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From: <LavozdeCubaLibre@aol.com>
To: <JoseFdez@aol.com>
Subject:  Rumsfeld:  US will go after nations harboring terror
Date: Sunday, September 16, 2001 9:55 AM


Rumsfeld US will go after nations harboring terror


WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on
Sunday the "terrorist network" responsible for the attacks on America is
"bigger than one person" and the United States will go after countries that
harbor "terrorists" and their organizations.

"We have no choice," Rumsfeld said on the "Fox News Sunday" program. "Either
the United States acquiesces to the terrorists and becomes isolationist,
turns inward, gives up our freedom ... We can't do that."

Echoing comments from other senior officials, the U.S. defense chief said
"there is no question" Saudi-born militant leader Osama bin Laden was
involved in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the
Pentagon.

Bin Laden, believed to be living in Afghanistan, has denied involvement.

In acknowledging the difficulty of finding and bringing bin Laden to
justice,
and of retaliating against such individuals who have few hard assets to
attack, Rumsfeld said the United States will pursue the perpetrators in a
variety of ways.

"(Bin Laden) is a prime suspect.... (in a) large, multi-headed effort that
probably spans 60 countries, including the United States. It is much bigger
than one person, the problem is much broader," Rumsfeld said.

"If you do not have an army to go after or a navy to go after, you have to
go
after the network. And you have to then also go after the countries that are
harboring," Rumsfeld said.

"Some of the countries that are harboring terrorist networks do in fact have
high-value targets, they do have capitals, they do have armies," he added.
"What we need to do is go to the countries that we have knowledge and tell
then that it has to stop and if it does not stop, we have to help stop it."

He did not specify which countries the United States suspects of harboring
its enemies.


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