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Rice confident of nabbing bin Laden WASHINGTON, Saturday (AFP) More than three years after the September 11, 2001 attacks made him the world's most hunted man, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she was still confident of nabbing Osama bin Laden. Speaking to a group of US newspaper editors here, Rice brushed off the occasional reports that US forces were close to catching bin Laden, believed to be holed up along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "Close really doesn't count," she said. "To my mind, what matters is the day that I get the phone call that I got about Saddam Hussein, which is, 'We have him,' and I am quite confident that that day will come." Although the Saudi-born terrorist mastermind was still at large, Rice insisted the United States and its allies had made a serious dent in the operations of his Al-Qaeda network. She said Al-Qaeda could no longer operate freely in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and along the Pakistani border and "we've also managed to take down a large part of the Al-Qaeda leadership "she said. |
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