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THE WHITE HOUSE
RECEIVED
Office of the Press Secretary JUN . V 2003 Internal Transcript
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INTERVIEW OF SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL BY BOB WOODWARD The West Wing
NON-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL
461
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8 Pages Omitted
462
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The period before September 11th, when we were trying to figure a way to enhance the strategy toward a! Qaeda and trying to figure a way to get more aggressive had revealed exactly this problem. The nonproliferation policy toward Pakistan meant that we had no relationship with Pakistan. Q
Sanctions in place.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Sanctions in place. So we could pressure Pakistan about the Taliban, but we had no incentives for Pakistan to play. Uzbekistan, for very real reasons of concerns about human rights and the like, we also had no relationship with Uzbekistan to speak of. And if you just look at the geography of Afghanistan --1 remember at Camp David pulling the map out and looking at Afghanistan --
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Q
You talked about — please, some place else.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: - I mean, there's Iran and Pakistan and Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, a country nobody could spell. The problem was, we had no relationships. And the work that we did in the lead-up, the work that was embodied in that September 4th document was to try, in part — some of that work was to try to address that problem. Because if you were going to have a more robust strategy toward Afghanistan, you could not do it on the fly. You had to have relationships with Pakistan, you had to have a relationship with Uzbekistan. You could not arm the Northern Alliance by dropping weapons on them in the north of the country. You had to have relationships to do that. And so, fortunately, we knew what to do, but the infrastructure was not yet in place.
NON-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL
464
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24 Pages Omitted
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ENET
466
RECEIVED
Office of the Press Secretary JUN . V 2003 Internal Transcript
A^^^M? 35,'™on & TerrflristAnacks
INTERVIEW OF SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL BY BOB WOODWARD The West Wing
NON-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL
461
Non-Responsive Material
8 Pages Omitted
462
NON-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL
The period before September 11th, when we were trying to figure a way to enhance the strategy toward a! Qaeda and trying to figure a way to get more aggressive had revealed exactly this problem. The nonproliferation policy toward Pakistan meant that we had no relationship with Pakistan. Q
Sanctions in place.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Sanctions in place. So we could pressure Pakistan about the Taliban, but we had no incentives for Pakistan to play. Uzbekistan, for very real reasons of concerns about human rights and the like, we also had no relationship with Uzbekistan to speak of. And if you just look at the geography of Afghanistan --1 remember at Camp David pulling the map out and looking at Afghanistan --
463
Q
You talked about — please, some place else.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: - I mean, there's Iran and Pakistan and Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, a country nobody could spell. The problem was, we had no relationships. And the work that we did in the lead-up, the work that was embodied in that September 4th document was to try, in part — some of that work was to try to address that problem. Because if you were going to have a more robust strategy toward Afghanistan, you could not do it on the fly. You had to have relationships with Pakistan, you had to have a relationship with Uzbekistan. You could not arm the Northern Alliance by dropping weapons on them in the north of the country. You had to have relationships to do that. And so, fortunately, we knew what to do, but the infrastructure was not yet in place.
NON-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL
464
Non-Responsive Material
24 Pages Omitted
465
Non-Responsive Material
ENET
466
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