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America's New War: Pentagon Has Called Up 14,000 Reservists and Guardsmen
Aired September 26, 2001 - 05:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go to the Pentagon and check in with our Mark Potter, who's got the latest on new deployments coming out -- Mark, good morning.
MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Leon.
Well, so far the Pentagon has called up about 14,000 National Guard and Reserve members to help support U.S. military operations at home and abroad. These groups are from around the country. They represent the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the U.S. Coast Guard. And the latest unit to be activated specializes in intelligence gathering, communications and security.
Now, this comes as U.S. combat troops and equipment continue to flow toward the region surrounding Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says this will be a long and costly war unlike anything seen before.
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DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY: There is not going to be a D-Day as such, and I'm sure there will not be a signing ceremony on the Missouri as such. This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event. It is something that will involve a sustained effort over a good period of time.
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POTTER: Secretary Rumsfeld says as coalitions build and diplomatic relations are cut, terrorists find themselves increasingly in a world aligned against them. He says believing the Taliban claim that it cannot find Osama bin Laden is like believing in the tooth fairy. And he suggests that opposition groups in Afghanistan, including dissidents in the Taliban government itself, could play an important role in the campaign against terrorists and those who support them.
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RUMSFELD: The end result, we would hope, would be a situation where the al Qaeda is heaved out and the people in Taliban, who think that it's good for them and good for the world to harbor terrorists and to foment and encourage and facilitate that kind of activity, lose, and lose seriously.
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POTTER: Finally from the Pentagon, the U.S. military has settled on the name for its anti-terrorism campaign. It is Operation Enduring Freedom -- Leon, back to you.
HARRIS: All right, Mark, one thing before we let you go. What's the latest on the clean-up there at the Pentagon?
POTTER: Well, it continues. It's a 24/7 operation. Workers are still out there. The FBI is in charge of the scene, and the latest number of victims identified is 78, and that's out of 189 people listed as dead or missing from that terrible event here on September 11 -- back to you.
HARRIS: All right. Thank you very much -- Mark Potter at the Pentagon.
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