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Ask CNN: After Ending Threat of Osama Bin Laden, How Do We Continue to Combat Terrorism Worldwide?

Aired November 20, 2001 - 07:41   ET

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ROSIE DEPAOLA, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Rosie Depaola. I'm from Decatur, Georgia and my question to CNN is, after ending the threat of Osama bin Laden, how we continue to combat terrorism worldwide.

MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD, (RET.) CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Rosie, it's been made clear that this is going to be a long war -- a wide war in many places around the globe. One of the dangers of the ongoing activities in Afghanistan are that if we get bin Laden and we get the al Qaeda cells, that the people will think the war on terrorism is over. It is not.

We're going to pursue terrorists and their terrorist cells wherever they are reportedly right now in 60 countries, including the United States. This is going to be done not only by military means, but by also by financial means; by diplomatic means; and by other means such as law enforcement.

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