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Rumsfeld says U.S. will eventually track down bin Laden.
Byline: Michael Kilian
WASHINGTON _ The dragnet for Osama bin Laden has failed thus far, largely because of a dearth of timely intelligence on the Saudi exile's whereabouts, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday.
Nevertheless, a grim-faced Rumsfeld predicted on the 19th day of air strikes that U.S. forces eventually will track down the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks who is thought to be hiding somewhere in Afghanistan with the help of the ruling Taliban regime.
"There isn't any progress," Rumsfeld said at a news briefing. "You either have him or you don't. . . . Until he is no longer functioning as a terrorist, he is functioning as a terrorist."
Rumsfeld backed off remarks he made in a USA Today article that quoted him as saying the Saudi fugitive ultimately may elude capture. "I don't know whether we'll be successful," Rumsfeld told the newspaper.
As the Bush administration struggled to find the best way to publicly define its mission in the campaign against terrorism and justify its methods, the likelihood of a ground war increased Wednesday.
British leaders were expected to make an announcement, possibly as soon as Friday, about the deployment of ground troops in…
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