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Monday, November 11, 2002
Powell on American targetted killing: Significant difference - al-Qaeda attacking US

Powell on American targetted killing: Significant difference - al-Qaeda
attacking US

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell November 10, 2002 Interview on CNN's
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
...
MR. BLITZER: The U.S. took an action this past week in firing Predator
missiles at these al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen, including a U.S.
citizen. What's the difference between that targeted killing and the
targeted killings the Israelis engage in -- which the State Department
has criticized?

SECRETARY POWELL: We believe that there are significant differences.
This was a case of clearly somebody engaged in a direct conflict with
the United States. We believe that there are other ways to deal with
the problems of the Middle East - other ways that are not enhanced.
The likelihood of these other ways working is not enhanced by those
kinds of targeted assassinations. So we believe there are differences
and distinctions between the two situations.

MR. BLITZER: Is the U.S. going to continue this policy as part of the
war on terror to go after these targets outside of Afghanistan?

SECRETARY POWELL: I would not comment on what targets we might or
might not go after anywhere in the world.

MR. BLITZER: But what you're saying is the Israelis should stop doing
what they did, but the U.S., theoretically, can continue to do --

SECRETARY POWELL: Our policy with respect to the Middle East and
targeted assassinations has not changed and we will do what we have to
do to defend ourselves with respect to terrorist activities.

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(End transcript)

(Distributed by the office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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