Colonial Frank Wismer, Coalition Provisional Authority chaplain (R)
briefs U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2nd L) at the Babylon
ruins on September 6, 2003 near Al Hillah in Iraq. Rumsfeld has been
visiting American forces in Iraq since last Friday. Sixty-seven
American and 11 British soldiers, plus hundreds of Iraqis, have been
killed in combat or crossfire since U.S. President Bush declared that
major combat was over, last May 1. Washington and London have so far
failed to substantiate claims Saddam had ties to al Qaeda, blamed for
the September 11 attacks, or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
that were the formal pretext for war. Rumsfeld REUTERS/HO/James M.
Bowman/U.S. Air Force

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