Thu Feb 26, 2004 07:10 AM ET
By Charles Aldinger and Mike Collett-White
KABUL (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden will probably be captured or killed one day, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday, but he added he had no idea when.
Rumsfeld was addressing a news briefing with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that comes amid stepped up U.S. and Pakistani operations against bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Taliban.
Asked if U.S. and allied forces were getting closer to capturing the world's most wanted man, Rumsfeld said:
"Close doesn't count. The world will be a better place when he is captured or killed. That is the goal of a great many nations... I suspect that we'll find that it is accomplished at some point in the future and I wouldn't have any idea when."
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In hearing this Bush has released plans to open a new "Department of Bold Statements".