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Secretary Rumsfeld announces the strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (right) announces the military strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan during a Pentagon press briefing on Oct. 7, 2001. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, joined Rumsfeld for the announcement. The carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime.