Summary

Defense officials continue to stress their mission is to destroy the Al Qaeda network During a briefing today, JCS Vice Chairman Gen Peter Pace said the military is looking at ways to handle opposition fighters and Al Qaeda leaving by boat Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said hatred for the Taliban in Afghanistan is working to the US's advantage

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 270871
Story Slug PENTAGON BRIEFING WITH PACE AND WOLFOWITZ
Location WASHINGTON
Format TVD
Date 11/21/2001
Archive Time 3:10
TRT 3:40
Video Description Pace and Wolfowitz at podium w/ cuts, air strike video, smart bombs hitting their targets, exploding, missiles striking targets, infrared gun sight camera footage, great shots of targets getting hit by missiles
Description Defense officials continue to stress their mission is to destroy the Al Qaeda network During a briefing today, JCS Vice Chairman Gen Peter Pace said the military is looking at ways to handle opposition fighters and Al Qaeda leaving by boat Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said hatred for the Taliban in Afghanistan is working to the US's advantage
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) 00:00 Special anymore in the rings, 00:02 our specialized approach to caves and tunnels is to put 500 pound bombs in the entrance are fleeing by a ship Well, the indications that we have now are that we are in fact closing in on the remaining Taliban concentrations Condos and condos are, therefore the amount of real estate available in Afghanistan, for the allocated delicata leaders to feel safe, is being reduced And as a precautionary measure, as you would expect us to, we are looking at how they might try to flee the country, one way they might try to flee his by ship So we're making sure we have the assets in place to handle that if it happens There's no specific indicator in place and condos in Canada No, no, not at all What there's no bombing halt at all What we do is provide support for the opposition forces And of course, if one of the opposition leaders asks us not to hit a particular facility, during a particular time, we would we would take that in consideration But that campaign to continue to bomb and to eliminate the Taliban forces and field continues 01:15 with bin Laden, which is totally understandable, that we might forget that there is a whole network outside of Afghanistan, there's a whole network that we have to get rid of that's more than just bin Laden So at the same time that we're hunting him, we're hunting down that whole network and not just in Afghanistan, but in the 59 other countries where they burden You talked about that And it's something that will have to be watched But I think when we say there's substantial work to be done, if, if those two cities can be taken and opposition control can be consolidated over the various regions of Afghanistan, then we'll have a very different situation in which we can continue the hunt for the remnants that remain on that same topic, I guess, you several steps beyond me I I just think that one of the things these regimes have got to fear is the hatred of their own people toward them And we've seen, I think, in Afghanistan, how the hatred of the people for the Taliban has been something that has worked in our favor and worked against the Taliban And I think that is a strategic principle 02:16 You also said that Taliban no longer knows where Osama bin Laden is and they are no longer 02:23 the target is the here's the front truck as you can see, but it is in such close proximity to the other that they both 02:42 Good afternoon, I guess you know, Secretary Rumsfeld is
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Keywords

DOD
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE