Rumsfeld: U.S. In 'Final Stages' Of Inspecting Possible Afghan WMD Sites

By John Liang / January 15, 2002 at 5:00 AM
U.S. forces in Afghanistan are in the "final stages" of searching sites that Pentagon officials suspect could house weapons of mass destruction, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today. "We're in the final stages of working on the so-called possible weapons of mass destruction sites," Rumsfeld told radio reporters at the Pentagon. "I don't know that that's a great characterization of it, but we received reports numbering in the many dozens, three or four or five dozen locations. A number of...

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