Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “said today [September 18, 2001] that Al Qaeda…may have activities in 50 to 60 countries, and that network is just one of many that President Bush has vowed to vanquish.”
– Michael R. Gordon, Eric Schmitt, and Thom Shanker, “Scarcity of Afghan Targets Leads U.S. to Revise Strategy,” The New York Times, Sep. 19, 2001