Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that the world must start thinking about how to reduce the number of people who are becoming terrorists through teachings in radical Islamic schools and not just focus on killing or capturing them after they commit violent acts. In three television appearances yesterday, he expanded on his Oct. 16 internal memo in which he posed the question, “Does the U.S. need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists?” “We are capturing and killing a lot of terrorists,” Rumsfeld said on “Fox News Sunday,” “but we also have to think about the number of new ones that are being created.” One problem, he said, is the lack of knowledge about how many anti-American terrorists are being turned out. Full Story
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