Reply #19: Rumsfeld says ‘Islamists’ most brutal enemies

[Judi Lynn]

March 28, 2006 Tuesday Safar 27, 1427

Rumsfeld says ‘Islamists’ most brutal enemies

CARLISLE (USA), March 27: The Al Qaeda network and ‘affiliated Islamic extremists’ represent one of the most brutal enemies the United States has ever seen, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday.

In remarks prepared for delivery to Army War College students and faculty, Mr Rumsfeld cited several examples of vicious terrorist assaults, including the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, and warned that unless the terrorists are stopped they will continue to seek the means to launch even deadlier attacks on the West in the years ahead.

“The enemy we face may be the most brutal in our history,” Mr Rumsfeld said. “They lack only the means _ not the desire _ to murder millions of innocent people with weapons vastly more powerful than boarding passes and box cutters,” he added, referring to those who hijacked the airliners on Sept 11.
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/28/int6.htm