General: Finding Bin Laden Not "All That Important"

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First Posted: 02-24-07 08:58 AM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM

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Houston Chronicle:

"I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."

Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the Army, pointed to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the killings of his sons, Uday and Qusay, and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence that bin Laden's capture or death would have little effect on the threats to the United States.

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Filed by Larry Womack
 



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