Al Jazeera English – Oct 4, 2011
Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara asks the former US defense secretary whether he made adequate preparations to avoid the thousands of lives lost in Iraq. Part of Donald Rumsfeld’s first interview with Al Jazeera after disparaging comments he made in 2004. He claimed then that the network’s coverage from Iraq was “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable”. The full interview can be seen on Al Jazeera Arabic on Tuesday 4th October at 1405GMT and twice more thereafter.
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