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Colin L. Powell October 25, 2001

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The Campaign Against Terrorism
U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington, DC
October 25, 2001

2:30 P.M. EDT

As Delivered

SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for welcoming
me back to appear before the Committee. And let me also say that I
happened to read the same newspaper articles that Senator Helms did
this morning, and when I saw the glaring headline, I said whoa, wait a
minute, this can't be right. So I immediately asked my staff to get the
transcript of what you had said. And I saw that it was not right, that
it was clear that you were speaking in a stereotypical, what other
people think. And then, at the tail end of that sentence that was taken
out of context, your final words were, "And that's not right."

And so I was much relieved, because I knew that couldn't have been your
view, and appreciative, as I have been, for these past weeks, and since
I became Secretary, of the support, Mr. Chairman, that you have
provided to the Department, that you have provided to me on a personal
basis. And I express to you, and to Chairman Helms and to the other
members of the Committee the same sentiment: thank you for your
support, and especially, thank you for the solid bipartisan support
that the Administration has enjoyed from the Committee during this
crisis that began on the 11th of September. It means a lot to us, it
shows a lot to the world about what kind of a nation we are, what kind
of a people we are. And in the midst of all the anthrax scares and
other things that are going on, we are here on Capitol Hill to conduct
the people's business. We will not be frightened, we will not be
scared. We will get on with the people's business, and I am pleased to
be here today to participate in that solid, historic, democratic
process that we enjoy and that we believe in to the depth of our
hearts.

THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your comment and your confidence. I
appreciate it.

SECRETARY POWELL: Mr. Chairman, if I may, I'd like to provide a written
testimony for the record, and I'd like to summarize it very briefly.

THE CHAIRMAN: Let it be placed in the record.

SECRETARY POWELL: Mr. Chairman, we will always remember the 11th of
September, where we all happened to be on that day, it's seared into
our individual memories, it's seared into our individual souls. I was
in Lima, Peru at breakfast with the President of Peru, President
Toledo, when the notes were handed to me, two notes in a quick row,
making it clear that it wasn't an accident, but my country had been hit
by the worst terrorist act that we had seen in our history.

And it was a long day for me, as I got in my plane and flew all the way
back from Peru, unable to communicate with anybody in Washington until
I arrived and joined the President in the White House with the other
national security advisors to the President.

And when I walked into the Situation Room and joined the President, I
found a President who was seized with the mission that had been handed
him that day, a President who had already seen that a challenge had
been presented to him that would change the entire nature of his
presidency and his administration. And a President who took up that
challenge, I think, in a bold way, a way that history will long
remember.

He knew right away that he not only had to go after the perpetrators of
these terrible attacks against us; he knew also that we had to go after
terrorism. It wouldn't be enough just to deal with these perpetrators,
who were soon identified as the al-Qaida network and Usama bin Laden.
But in order to be the kind of leader that he is, in order to show
leadership to the world, we had to undertake a campaign that goes after
terrorism in all of its many forms around the world.

And it's a campaign that has many dimensions to it. It's a campaign
that some days involves financial attacks, other days law enforcement
attacks, intelligence attacks, and sometimes, as we see now in
Afghanistan, military attacks. We have to secure our borders. We have
to do a better job of talking to other nations about who travels across
our borders. We have to make sure we go after the financial networks
that support terrorist activity.

And to do that, we built a broad coalition, a coalition of nations that
came together to respond to this attack, not just against America, but
against civilization. Hundreds and hundreds of people who were not
Americans died in the World Trade Center. Five hundred Muslims died in
the World Trade Center. Usama bin Laden and al-Qaida killed Muslims on
the 11th of September 2001 in New York City, as well as men and women
representing every race, color and creed on the face of the earth, and
a large number of American citizens.

Are we're going after them with this broad coalition to make sure that
they are brought to justice or justice is brought to them. It was an
attack against civilization; civilization must respond.

People have said, well, you know, it was an attack against America,
really not civilization. No, it wasn't. It was the action of an evil
man, and it was an evil act. There is no connection or relationship to
any faith; there is no faith on the face of the earth that would
sanction such an evil strike against innocent people. And we cannot let
Usama bin Laden pretend that he is doing it in the name of helping the
Iraqi people or the Palestinian people. He doesn't care one whit about
them. He has never given a dollar toward them. He has never spoken out
for them. He has used them as a cover for his evil, criminal,
murderous, terrorist acts. And he has to be seen in that light.

We have put together a grand coalition, and people have said, well,
coalitions sometimes come with problems. When you bring all these
people together, don't you have to take into account all of their
interests, and don't these kinds of coalitions sometimes hamstring the
President and his ability to do what he thinks he has to do.

The answer to the question is: the President has not given up any of
his authority. There are no arrangements within this coalition which in
any way, shape, fashion or form constrain the President and the
exercise of his constitutional responsibilities to defend the United
States of America and to defend the people of the United States. So
that should not be a concern in anyone's mind.

At the same time, without this coalition, the President couldn't do
what needs to be done. Without this coalition, we couldn't be
cooperating with 100 nations around the world on going after financial
networks of terrorist organizations. Without this coalition, we
wouldn't have countries that were supporting us in the prosecution of
our military campaign, giving us over-flight, giving us basing rights
and contributing military forces to fight alongside American forces.

So this is a coalition that is of enormous value, and what is unique
about this coalition that makes it different than any other coalition
anyone has ever put together is that, except for about three or four
countries, every other country on the face of the Earth has signed up.
They have signed up in many ways, whether it was NATO, 19 nations
invoking Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, the NATO Treaty, for the
first time in history, saying that an attack on one is an attack on
all, and that attack in New York City and Washington and Pennsylvania
was an attack on one and was an attack on all of us, and NATO has
responded.

The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General
Assembly, the OAS, the Rio Treaty was invoked, the ANZUS Treaty was
invoked. The Organization of Islamic Conference had a meeting earlier
this month, and 56 Muslim nations came forward and said this was a
dastardly attack which does not represent Islam; it's a disgrace; the
United States is right to see it as an attac

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KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 29 — U.S. warplanes on Monday struck at caves and
tunnels in eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden and his followers have
been known to hide out, according to Pentagon officials. The airstrikes came as
a senior defense official acknowledged that the U.S. is considering
establishing a base inside Afghanistan to better assist opposition forces
fighting to topple the ruling Taliban.

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are from the USS Peleliu and USS Bataan. Other Marines will
arrive at the airfield by C-130.

The secretary wouldn't say specifically what the operating
base would be used for. "We don't discuss future plans or
developments," Rumsfeld said. He said the area has
strategic importance because it is near major crossroads
and east-west routes into Iran and Pakistan.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said the
operation to position the Marines "has gone well so far."
He noted that U.S. efforts in the country "remain focused
on providing support to opposition groups throughout
Afghanistan and on establishing airfield hubs for
humanitarian assistance efforts."

Myers said Northern Alliance troops entered the city of
Kunduz as Taliban groups surrendered. He said isolated
pockets of foreign fighters continue to be active in the
area. Rumsfeld added he not surprised the foreign fighters
are holding out. "The Al Qaeda and the non-Afghan troops …
have been among the toughest of the fighters and the most
determined and the least likely to surrender," he said.
"(They) would have the least ability to melt into the
countryside."

The chairman said 110 U.S. aircraft struck in nine planned
target areas concentrated on Al Qaeda and Taliban cave and
tunnel complexes, as well as Taliban military forces
primarily in and around Jalalabad and Kandahar.

U.S. forces also dropped leaflets in the areas surrounding
Mazar-e Sharif, Kabul, Kandahar and Herat and continued
Commando Solo broadcasts in these areas, Myers said.

Two C-17 Globemaster III cargo planes dropped 40 containers
holding more than 19,000 humanitarian ration packs and 40
containers of wheat and blankets. Myers said these
containers were dropped near Kunduz and Herat using
"parachute delivery systems."

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Raw Data: Video Transcript

Thursday, December 13, 2001



This is the transcript (translated into English) of the Usama bin Laden
videotape released by the Pentagon on Thursday, December 13, 2001.


Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George Michael,
translator, Diplomatic Language Services; and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic
language program coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it with
translations done by the U. S. government for consistency. There were no
inconsistencies in the translations.

In mid-November, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, possibly in
Qandahar, Afghanistan. These comments were video taped with the knowledge of
Bin Laden and all present.

Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three different
segments: an original taping of a visit by some people to the site of the
downed U. S. helicopter in Ghazni province (approximately 12 minutes long); and
two segments documenting a courtesy visit by Bin Laden and his lieutenants to
an unidentified Shaykh, who appears crippled from the waist down. The visit
apparently takes place at a guesthouse in Qandahar. The sequence of the events
is reversed on the tape the end of his visit is in the beginning of the tape
with the helicopter site visit in the middle and the start of the Usama bin
Laden visit beginning approximately 39 minutes into the tape. The tape is
transcribed below according to the proper sequence of events.

Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim transcript of
every word spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and
information flow.

EDITOR'S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin Laden meeting,
begins after footage of helicopter site visit

Shaykh: (... inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope
and we thank Allah for you. We don't want to take much of your time, but this
is the arrangement of the brothers. People now are supporting us more, even
those ones who did not support us in the past, support us more now. I did not
want to take that much of your time. We praise Allah, we praise Allah. We came
from Kabul. We were very pleased to visit. May Allah bless you both at home and
the camp. We asked the driver to take us, it was a night with a full moon,
thanks be to Allah. Believe me it is not in the country side. The elderly...
everybody praises what you did, the great action you did, which was first and
foremost by the grace of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah and the blessed
fruit of jihad.

UBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saudi Arabia)?

Shaykh: Honestly, they are very positive. Shaykh Al-Bahrani (phonetic) gave a
good sermon in his class after the sunset prayers. It was videotaped and I was
supposed to carry it with me, but unfortunately, I had to leave immediately.

UBL: The day of the events?

Shaykh: At the exact time of the attack on America, precisely at the time. He
(Bahrani) gave a very impressive sermon. Thanks be to Allah for his blessings.
He (Bahrani) was the first one to write at war time. I visited him twice in Al-
Qasim.

UBL: Thanks be to Allah.

Shaykh: This is what I asked from Allah. He (Bahrani) told the youth: "You are
asking for martyrdom and wonder where you should go (for martyrdom)?" Allah was
inciting them to go. I asked Allah to grant me to witness the truth in front of
the unjust ruler. We ask Allah to protect him and give him the martyrdom, after
he issued the first fatwa. He was detained for interrogation, as you know. When
he was called in and asked to sign, he told them, "don't waste my time, I have
another fatwa. If you want me, I can sign both at the same time."

UBL: Thanks be to Allah.

Shaykh: His position is really very encouraging. When I paid him the first
visit about a year and half ago, he asked me, "How is Shaykh Bin-Ladin?" He
sends you his special regards. As far as Shaykh Sulayman 'Ulwan is concerned,
he gave a beautiful fatwa, may Allah bless him. Miraculously, I heard it on the
Quran radio station. It was strange because he (' Ulwan) sacrificed his
position, which is equivalent to a director. It was transcribed word-by-word.
The brothers listened to it in detail. I briefly heard it before the noon
prayers. He (' Ulwan) said this was jihad and those people were not innocent
people (World Trade Center and Pentagon victims). He swore to Allah. This was

transmitted to Shaykh Sulayman Al ((' Umar)) Allah bless him.

UBL: What about Shaykh Al-(( Rayan))?

Shaykh: Honestly, I did not meet with him. My movements were truly limited.

UBL: Allah bless you. You are welcome.

Shaykh: (Describing the trip to the meeting) They smuggled us and then I
thought that we would be in different caves inside the mountains so I was
surprised at the guest house and that it is very clean and comfortable. Thanks
be to Allah, we also learned that this location is safe, by Allah's blessings.
The place is clean and we are very comfortable.

UBL: (... Inaudible...) when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by
nature, they will like the strong horse. This is only one goal; those who want
people to worship the lord of the people, without following that doctrine, will
be following the doctrine of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

(UBL quotes several short and incomplete Hadith verses, as follows):

"I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah,
and his prophet Muhammad."

"Some people may ask: why do you want to fight us?"

"There is an association between those who say: I believe in one god and
Muhammad is his prophet, and those who don't (... inaudible...)

"Those who do not follow the true fiqh. The fiqh of Muhammad, the real fiqh.
They are just accepting what is being said at face value."

UBL: Those youth who conducted the operations did not accept any fiqh in the
popular terms, but they accepted the fiqh that the prophet Muhammad brought.
Those young men (... inaudible...) said in deeds, in New York and Washington,
speeches that overshadowed all other speeches made everywhere else in the
world. The speeches are understood by both Arabs and non-Arabs even by Chinese.
It is above all the media said. Some of them said that in Holland, at one of
the centers, the number of people who accepted Islam during the days that
followed the operations were more than the people who accepted Islam in the
last eleven years. I heard someone on Islamic radio who owns a school in
America say: "We don't have time to keep up with the demands of those who are
asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam." This event made people think
(about true Islam) which benefited Islam greatly.

Shaykh: Hundreds of people used to doubt you and few only would follow you
until this huge event happened. Now hundreds of people are coming out to join
you. I remember a vision by Shaykh Salih Al-(( Shuaybi)). He said: "There will
be a great hit and people will go out by hundreds to Afghanistan." I asked him
(Salih): "To Afghanistan?" He replied, "Yes." According to him, the only ones
who stay behind will be the mentally impotent and the liars (hypocrites). I
remembered his saying that hundreds of people will go out to Afghanistan. He
had this vision a year ago. This event discriminated between the different
types of followers.

UBL: (... Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from
the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We
calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I
was the most optimistic of them all. (... Inaudible...) due to my experience in
this field, I was thinking that th

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UBL: (... Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from
the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We
calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I
was the most optimistic of them all. (... Inaudible...) due to my experience in
this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt
the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit
and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for.

Shaykh: Allah be praised.

UBL: We were at (... inaudible...) when the event took place. We had
notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that
day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5: 30 p. m.
our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-(( Khair)). Immediately, we heard
the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio
station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the
attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane
just hit the World Trade Center.

Shaykh: Allah be praised.

UBL: After a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the World
Trade Center. The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it.

Shaykh: I listened to the news and I was sitting. We didn't... we were not
thinking about anything, and all of a sudden, Allah willing, we were talking
about how come we didn't have anything, and all of a sudden the news came and
everyone was overjoyed and everyone until the next day, in the morning, was
talking about what was happening and we stayed until four o'clock, listening to
the news every time a little bit different, everyone was very joyous and
saying "Allah is great," "Allah is great," "We are thankful to Allah," "Praise
Allah." And I was happy for the happiness of my brothers. That day the
congratulations were coming on the phone non-stop. The mother was receiving
phone calls continuously. Thank Allah. Allah is great, praise be to Allah.

(Quoting the verse from the Quran)

Shaykh: "Fight them, Allah will torture them, with your hands, he will torture
them. He will deceive them and he will give you victory. Allah will forgive the
believers, he is knowledgeable about everything."

Shaykh: No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has bestowed on us... honor on
us... and he will give us blessing and more victory during this holy month of
Ramadan. And this is what everyone is hoping for. Thank Allah America came out
of its caves. We hit her the first hit and the next one will hit her with the
hands of the believers, the good believers, the strong believers. By Allah it
is a great work. Allah prepares for you a great reward for this work. I'm sorry
to speak in your presence, but it is just thoughts, just thoughts. By Allah,
who there is no god but him. I live in happiness, happiness... I have not
experienced, or felt, in a long time. I remember, the words of Al-Rabbani, he
said they made a coalition against us in the winter with the infidels like the
Turks, and others, and some other Arabs. And they surrounded us like the
days... in the days of the prophet Muhammad. Exactly like what's happening
right now. But he comforted his followers and said, "This is going to turn and
hit them back." And it is a mercy for us. And a blessing to us. And it will
bring people back. Look how wise he was. And Allah will give him blessing. And
the day will come when the symbols of Islam will rise up and it will be similar
to the early days of Al-Mujahedeen and Al-Ansar (similar to the early years of
Islam). And victory to those who follow Allah. Finally said, if it is the same,
like the old days, such as Abu Bakr and Othman and Ali and others. In these
days, in our times, that it will be the greatest jihad in the history of Islam
and the resistance of the wicked people.

Shaykh: By Allah my Shaykh. We congratulate you for the great work. Thank
Allah.

Tape ends here

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UBL: Abdallah Azzam, Allah bless his soul, told me not to record anything (...
inaudible...) so I thought that was a good omen, and Allah will bless us (...
inaudible...).

Abu-Al-Hasan Al-(( Masri)), who appeared on Al-Jazeera TV a couple of days ago
and addressed the Americans saying: "If you are true men, come down here and
face us." (... inaudible...) He told me a year ago: "I saw in a dream, we were
playing a soccer game against the Americans. When our team showed up in the
field, they were all pilots!" He said: "So I wondered if that was a soccer game
or a pilot game? Our players were pilots." He (Abu-Al-Hasan) didn't know
anything about the operation until he heard it on the radio. He said the game
went on and we defeated them. That was a good omen for us.

Shaykh: May Allah be blessed.

Unidentified Man Off Camera: Abd Al Rahman Al-( Ghamri) said he saw a vision,
before the operation, a plane crashed into a tall building. He knew nothing
about it.

Shaykh: May Allah be blessed!

Sulayman (( Abu Guaith)): I was sitting with the Shaykh in a room, then I left
to go to another room where there was a TV set. The TV broadcasted the big
event. The scene was showing an Egyptian family sitting in their living room,
they exploded with joy. Do you know when there is a soccer game and your team
wins, it was the same expression of joy. There was a subtitle that read: "In
revenge for the children of Al Aqsa', Usama Bin Ladin executes an operation
against America." So I went back to the Shaykh (meaning UBL) who was sitting in
a room with 50 to 60 people. I tried to tell him about what I saw, but he made
gesture with his hands, meaning: "I know, I know…"

UBL: He did not know about the operation. Not everybody knew (...
inaudible...). Muhammad (( Atta)) from the Egyptian family (meaning the Al
Qa'ida Egyptian group), was in charge of the group.

Shaykh: A plane crashing into a tall building was out of anyone's imagination.
This was a great job. He was one of the pious men in the organization. He
became a martyr. Allah bless his soul.

Shaykh (Referring to dreams and visions): The plane that he saw crashing into
the building was seen before by more than one person. One of the good religious
people has left everything and come here. He told me, "I saw a vision, I was in
a huge plane, long and wide. I was carrying it on my shoulders and I walked
from the road to the desert for half a kilometer. I was dragging the plane." I
listened to him and I prayed to Allah to help him. Another person told me that
last year he saw, but I didn't understand and I told him I don't understand. He
said, "I saw people who left for jihad... and they found themselves in New
York... in Washington and New York." I said, "What is this?" He told me the
plane hit the building. That was last year. We haven't thought much about it.
But, when the incidents happened he came to me and said, "Did you see... this
is strange." I have another man... my god... he said and swore by Allah that
his wife had seen the incident a week earlier. She saw the plane crashing into
a building... that was unbelievable, my god.

UBL: The brothers, who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they
have a martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America but they
didn't know anything about the operation, not even one letter. But they were
trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and
just before they boarded the planes.

UBL: (... inaudible...) then he said: Those who were trained to fly didn't know
the others. One group of people did not know the other group. (...
inaudible...)

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UBL: (... inaudible...) then he said: Those who were trained to fly didn't know
the others. One group of people did not know the other group. (...
inaudible...)

(Someone in the crowd asks UBL to tell the Shaykh about the dream of (( Abu-
Da'ud)).

UBL: We were at a camp of one of the brother's guards in Qandahar. This brother
belonged to the majority of the group. He came close and told me that he saw,
in a dream, a tall building in America, and in the same dream he saw Mukhtar
teaching them how to play karate. At that point, I was worried that maybe the
secret would be revealed if everyone starts seeing it in their dream. So I
closed the subject. I told him if he sees another dream, not to tell anybody,
because people will be upset with him.

(Another person's voice can be heard recounting his dream about two planes
hitting a big building).

UBL: They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to
them: be patient.

UBL: The difference between the first and the second plane hitting the towers
was twenty minutes. And the difference between the first plane and the plane
that hit the Pentagon was one hour.

Shaykh: They (the Americans) were terrified thinking there was a coup.

[Note: Ayman Al-Zawahri says first he commended UBL's awareness of what the
media is saying. Then he says it was the first time for them (Americans) to
feel danger coming at them.]

UBL (reciting a poem): I witness that against the sharp blade

They always faced difficulties and stood together... When the darkness comes
upon us and we are bit by a Sharp tooth, I say...

"Our homes are flooded with blood and the tyrant Is freely wandering in our
homes"...

And from the battlefield vanished The brightness of swords and the horses...

And over weeping sounds now We hear the beats of drums and rhythm…

They are storming his forts And shouting: "We will not stop our raids

Until you free our lands"... Bin Laden visit footage complete. Footage of the
visit to the helicopter site follows the poem.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
For Immediate Release

December 17, 2001

Remarks
By Secretary Of State Colin L. Powell
And His Excellency Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Minister Of Foreign Affairs
Of The Republic Of Poland,
After Their Meeting

December 17, 2001
C Street Entrance
Washington, D.C.


12:05 p.m. EST

SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good morning, everyone. It has been my great
pleasure to receive the Polish Foreign Minister, my colleague Foreign
Minister Cimoszewicz, and to welcome him here to the State Department.

We spent our meeting talking about the very strong state of US-Polish
relations. We have worked closely together on the new campaign against
terrorism. I thanked the Minister for hosting the conference that was
held on November 6 with Central and Eastern European nations on the
subject of terrorism. And I thanked him for the strong support that he
has provided to our coalition efforts, to include the offer of units.

It is indicative of the close relationship that exists between our two
countries, as reflected in the fact that President Bush gave one of the
most important speeches of his administration in Warsaw, Poland, when
he spoke about his vision for a Europe that is whole, free and at
peace. And Poland has been an inspiration to the world and to its
neighbors in Europe as a result of its experience over the last 12
years.

So it is a great pleasure to welcome you here, Mr. Minister, and
welcome you back to the United States, a place you know well. And we
look forward to many more such meetings in the future.

FOREIGN MINISTER CIMOSZEWICZ: Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary of
State. It is always a pleasure to be here in the States, in
Washington, even in such a little bit sad days. But I believe it is
times of trial that are the best exam for friendship, for cooperation,
for closeness. And so I am very satisfied that in those dramatic
circumstances, in those dramatic days, Poland is acting according to
its long-lasting proverb

................it does not end in Afghanistan

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By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2001