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Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 07:43 AM by mopaul
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=590252&page=1JONATHAN KARL: President Musharraf recently said about eight to 10 months ago they came very close to getting Osama bin Laden. What was he talking about?
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: I don't know the specific circumstances to which he was referring. I read those reports, as well. We are going to continue the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and I think there will probably be times when we are closer, and times when we are further away, but the point is that his world has gotten smaller. He can't operate in Afghanistan. He is having more and more trouble. Al Qaeda is operating along the northwest frontier because the Pakistanis are now fighting there in ways that they were not. And it's also important not to just focus on Osama bin Laden but, of course, on the field generals that have been put out of commission like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah and others. So this is a network, it's an organization that has to be brought down, whose financing has to be cut off, whose territory has to be made smaller for operation. Eventually, I'm quite certain that we will get Osama bin Laden, but my own view is that until we do, there is really no point in talking about whether we have or have not come close to getting him.
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