The Rumsfeld Papers

1.  William Luti, Jim MacDougall, Mira Ricardel, Marc Thiessen, and John Craddock, to Rumsfeld, [No Subject], undated.

2. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “My Visits to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Turkey,” October 6, 2001.

3. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “My Visits to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Turkey,” October 6, 2001.

4. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “My Visits to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Turkey,” October 6, 2001.

5. U.S. Defense Attaché Office Tashkent to Rumsfeld, Department of Defense cable, “Draft Report of DefSec Meeting with President Karimov,” October 5, 2001.

6. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “My Visits to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Turkey,” October 6, 2001.

7. Rumsfeld to Powell and Rice, “Uzbekistan,” October 7, 2001.

8.  Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Press Conference with President of Uzbekistan,” October 5, 2001.

9. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld En Route to Saudi Arabia,” October 2, 2001.

10. Rumsfeld, “Turkey,” December 28, 2001.

11. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 285.

12.  Rumsfeld to Feith, “Strategy,” October 30, 2001.

13.  Department of Defense news transcript, “Rumsfeld and Myers Briefing on Enduring Freedom,” October 7, 2001.

14. Lieutenant General Michael DeLong, USMC (Ret.), with Noah Lukeman, Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 39.

15.  Vice Admiral Giambastiani and Larry Di Rita, “Memorandum of 21 October Secure Conference Call with CinCent,” October 24, 2001.

16.  Rumsfeld, “Taliban and the NGOs,” October 31, 2001.

17.  Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks at Stakeout Outside ABC TV,” October 28, 2001; Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers,” October 29, 2001.

18. Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “What Will Be the Military Role in the War on Terrorism,” October 10, 2001.

19. Kathy Gannon, “Afghanistan’s Terrain a Challenge,” Associated Press, September 18, 2001.

20. Editorial, “The Quagmire Issue; U.S. Should Prepare for a Long Struggle,” Dallas Morning News, October 26, 2001.

21.  Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Can Bush Bushkazi?,” New York Times, October 28, 2001.

22. R.W.Apple, Jr., “A Military Quagmire Remembered: Afghanistan as Vietnam,” New York Times, October 31, 2001.

23.  Rumsfeld to Larry Di Rita, “War on Terrorism,” September 23, 2001.