DONALD RUMSFELD OPENS MEETING. TALKS ABOUT REMARKS MADE BY
"SOMEONE IN PENTAGON" WHO LEAKED INFORMATION ABOUT PRESENCE OF U.S.
RANGERS ON GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN WHICH PUT THEM AT RISK WHEN
REPORTED BY THE PRESS.

GENERAL MYERS GIVE BATTLE ASSESMENTS FOR THE DAY BEFORE. SHOWS MAP
OF AFGHANISTAN TITLED "ENDURING FREEDOM, OCTOBER 20" WITH TARGET
SITES WHICH INCLUDE LEAFLET AND HUMANITARIAN FOOD DROPS. "COMMANDER
SOLO" RADIO PROPAGANDA BROADCASTS WERE ALSO INCLUDED

RUMSFELD SAYS HE HAS "ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE" OF HOSPITAL BEING HIT
AND TWO U.S. HELICOPTERS BEING SHOT DOWN AS REPORTED BY TALIBAN.

RUMSFELD: "MOST REPORTS OF U.S. BOMBINGS OF CITIES OF KABUL AND
KANDAHAR ARE UNTRUE".

REPORTER ASKS RUMSFELD IF THE RECENT ANTHRAX ATTACKS WERE THE WORK
OF AL QAEDA. RUMSFELD SAYS HE DON'T KNOW.

RUMSFELD SPEAKS IN LENGTH ABOUT LEAKS OF INFORMATION BY GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS.

RUMSFELD: "WE HAVE SEEN LIES BY TALIBAN CARRIED ACROSS THE GLOBE IN
TELEVISION AND IN THE PRESS".

GENERAL MYERS ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT MAZAR IL SHARIF AND NORTHERN
ALLIANCE.

DOD BRIEFING: FRIDAY (10/19/01)

QUIGLEY SPEAKS OF HUMANITARIAN DROPS. SAYS THAT PRESS WILL BE ON
BOARD DURING THE DROPS FROM NOW ON.

TALKS OF TODAY BEING 13TH DAY OF OPERATIONS AGAINST AL QAEDA AND
TALIBAN. TELLS OF THE TARGETS HIT.

SHOWS BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS OF TARGETS HIT AS WELL AS GUN CAMERA
FILM SHOWING TARGETS EXPLODING

REPORTERS TAKING NOTES.

REPORTER TELLS STUFFLEBEEM THAT TALIBAN AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN SAYS
THE TALIBAN SUFFERED NO LEADERSHIP CASUALTIES. STUFFLEBEEM RESPONDS.

REPORTER SAYS CNN HAS REPORTED THAT TALIBAN MAY BLOW UP A MAJOR
MOSQUE IN MAZAR I SHARIF IN ATTEMPT TO BLAME U.S. ATTACKERS.

STUTTLEBEEM TELLS WHAT SPECIAL FORCES ROLE CAN BE IN BATTLE.

REPORTER ASKS ABOUT LEAFLETS BEING DROPPED ONTO TALIBAN TROOPS.