Rumsfeld says NATO should take lead role in Afghanistan

Monday, December 1, 2003

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The United States would like NATO eventually to take over the military mission in Afghanistan, where an American-dominated force is still hunting down remnants of the Taliban rule that collapsed two years ago, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday.

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