Article: Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Interview with Jim Lehrer for PBS NewsHour -- Part 1 of 2.

Article: Rumsfeld: Taliban Gov't Weakening
AP Online;  November 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 04-2001 Title: Rumsfeld: Taliban Gov't Weakening ... opposition lost to the Taliban last year. Rumsfeld, on a tour of front ... Afghanistan. "The Taliban (are) not really ... as a government," Rumsfeld declared after meeting ...

Article: Rumsfeld: Taliban Gov't Weakened
AP Online;  November 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 11-04-2001 Title: Rumsfeld: Taliban Gov't Weakened Byline ... Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed Sunday. "The Taliban (are) not really functioning ... in static positions." Rumsfeld said the Taliban were trying to prevent ...

Article: Rumsfeld: Taliban Leaders Killed
AP Online;  October 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 10-29-2001 Rumsfeld: Taliban Leaders Killed ... terrorist attacks, Rumsfeld said. ``There ... question but that the Taliban and al-Qaida ... reports that the Taliban had arrested Americans ... in Afghanistan, Rumsfeld said, ``There ...

Article: Rumsfeld: Taliban Targets Remain
AP Online;  October 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Online 10-15-2001 Rumsfeld: Taliban Targets Remain WASHINGTON ... Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan ... connection. At the Pentagon, Rumsfeld scoffed at claims by the Taliban that eight days of American ...

Article: Rumsfeld predicts Taliban stronghold will fall; ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... news conference, Rumsfeld said two main groups of anti-Taliban forces are pressing ... is clear: The Taliban and al-Qaida ... from Kandahar," Rumsfeld said. "The choice ... al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners," Rumsfeld said. "You can ...

Article: Rumsfeld refutes Taliban claims of two downed U.S. ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Video footage showed Taliban officials inspecting ... Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the Taliban assertions as false ... In his briefing, Rumsfeld said the Pentagon has ... United States and the Taliban has intensified in ...

Article: Karzai and Rumsfeld declare Taliban defeated
International Herald Tribune;  February 27, 2004 ;     422 words ... ... Thursday that the Taliban was a defeated ... Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the presidential ... east of Kabul. Rumsfeld was on a one ... offensive to capture Taliban and Al Qaeda ... Both Karzai and Rumsfeld played down the threat from the Taliban that once harbored ...