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Taliban no threat to Afghanistan, Rumsfeld and Karzai says.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | February 26, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Liz Sly

KABUL, Afghanistan _ Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that the Taliban pose no threat to the security of Afghanistan, despite news of a fresh attack on aid workers attributed to remnants of the fundamentalist regime.

"I've not seen any indication that the Taliban pose any military threat to the security of Afghanistan," said Rumsfeld, addressing reporters alongside Karzai after his sixth visit to Afghanistan in the two years since the Taliban regime was toppled.

Karzai said he was being contacted…

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