Rumsfeld stressed the importance of timely intelligence in winning the war on terrorism.
"It's not going to be a cruise missile or a bomber that's going to be the determining factor," he said. "It's going to be a scrap of information from some person in some country that is being oppressed by a dictatorial regime ... that will enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it."
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