U.S. Expects Blood to Mar Iraq Election ; but Rumsfeld, Powell Say World Is Safer Now

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Terrorists will target Iraqi politicians and U.S. coalition allies in a bid to undermine scheduled national elections in Iraq in January, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld warned yesterday.

In separate major policy addresses on the eve of the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Mr. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell insisted that the United States under President Bush had made major gains in the global war on terror.

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U.S. Expects Blood to Mar Iraq Election ; but Rumsfeld, Powell Say World Is Safer Now

"Our world is safer than it was three years ago, but there is still much more work to be done," Mr. Powell told a large audience at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall.

Despite the gains, Mr. Ru...

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