Rumsfeld offers assurances on any airliner shoot-down order
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sought to offer assurances on Sept. 27 that any order to shoot down hijacked airliners that might be on suicide missions would come from the highest possible authority. He confirmed that new rules of engagement instituted after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York...
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