US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended American attempts to kill rebel leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq. “We would be happy to have them surrender. And if they don’t, we would be happy to kill them,” Mr Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday. His comments came just days after nine Afghan children died in a weekend US air raid on a remote Afghan village in Ghazni province. The US military now says six children died in another US raid near Gardez. Full Story