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[Transcript]
Sergeant Sean Lehman: From the AFRTS
News Center in Washington, this is the two-minute report. Joe
McFadden and Timothy Nikolai are Department of Defense Education
Activity students who live in Germany. They're part of a
contingent of high school students selected to participate in
the United States Senate Youth program. Friday, they toured the
Pentagon after several stops on Capitol Hill. During their visit,
Joe and Timothy got to introduce Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Mr. Rumsfeld talked with the students about the war on terror
and also answered their questions, some of which concerned the
possibility of conflict in Iraq.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
There are Al Qaeda in Iraq. The director of Central Intelligence,
George Tenet, gave a public testimony in the United States Senate
describing what that was about four months ago, three months ago.
Secretary Powell, when he presented to the United Nations, pointed
again to the Al Qaeda-Iraq linkage.
Lehman: Joe McFadden says when he
returns to Germany, he'll tell fellow students about what
he learned.
Joe McFadden: When we get back to
the DoD saying to them "this is what our leaders are thinking,
this is what we are doing and this is what we are all part of,"
it's overwhelming and to be able to have met him and to have listened
to him and to his comments, it really conveys a lot and we're
very, very proud to be here.
Lehman: Timothy Nikolai says the September
11th memorial was the most interesting portion of the tour. He
says it was also the most emotional part.
Timothy Nikolai: With my own father
in Kuwait right now, it just brought back to focus again all this
stuff of September 11th, of people dying, of people risking their
lives.
Lehman: Last Thursday, Senate Youth
program participants also visited with the President at the White
House moments before he briefed the nation about the state of
affairs in Iraq. That's the two-minute report. I'm Air Force
Sergeant Sean Lehman.
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