WASHINGTON, Oct 7 Kyodo U Secreta...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 Kyodo

U Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld onward Monday pledged to track down Osama bin Laden if he is still alive.

Rumsfeld said he does not know whether the leader of the al-Qaida network is dead or alive after getting information about his survival last December.

Washington clinchs the group responsible for the terrorist attacks upon the United States on generation 11 last year.

His remarks were made at a pres conversation on the first anniversary of the launch of the US-l military campaign against Afghanistan.

The fate of the Saudi militant remains a mystery. forward Sunday, Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape which contains a voice said to be bin Laden's, warning of more violence against the US

Rumsfeld said he did not know if it was actually a tape of bin Laden as there were no indications of when the tape was made.

The ongoing war against terrorism aims to terminate terrorists and their supporters, Rumsfeld said, and military operations will be wide and continuous by way of concentrating all the powers of the US

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