Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

News Video: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in heated exchange with Al Jazeera

Above DoD file photo is of then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (left) and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) as they held a joint media availability at the site of the World Trade Center disaster in lower Manhattan, on Nov. 14, 2001. Rumsfeld was visiting the site of the Sept. 11th disaster to speak to Giuliani, officials from the N.Y. Fire Department and the Office of Emergency Management.
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Fox News brings us the following report that goes in part like this… Donald Rumsfeld, who once called Al Jazeera's news coverage "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable" during his stint as defense secretary in the Bush administration, appeared to make peace with the English version of the Arabic-language news channel by agreeing to his first interview with the network last Friday to hawk his memoir… But following a friendly interview with news veteran David Frost for the network on the same day, sparks flew in another round of questioning by D.C. bureau chief Abderrahim Foukara…
Read the rest at link below…
Watch part of the interview below…
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in heated exchange with Al Jazeera
About above Video: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got into a heated exchange with Al Jazeera over questions about the U.S. invasion of Iraq…
Posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish on Oct 4, 2011
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Just for FUN…
Here’s a short Music Video I put together a few years back on Rummy and “All Them Faces”
ENJOY!!!
This video posted on YouTube by me, AubreyJ818
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You GO, Rummy!
And thanks for all your years of service to this Great Country of ours
AubreyJ………
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Donald Rumsfeld’s 2004 Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries

NYTimes.com brings us another one of their ‘Paper first -- Country last, reports’ and it starts off like this... The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials... These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States...
Read the full report at link below...
Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries