Donald Rumsfeld Tribes Quotations

We don't have any announcements to make with respect to the activities of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance or various tribes in the southern part of the country. We are considering a whole range of things,

Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.

The area of the country he is operating in and the tribes he is in contact with are obviously the dominant population in the country so that whole element has a big role to play in both the operations and the post-Taliban government,

They are currently functioning independently of the tribes ... and they are doing things that are helpful to our side and unhelpful to the other side,

The hope is that those Taliban people will in fact move over and support the Northern Alliance and support the tribes in the south, ... The point of the broadcasts and of the leaflets that are being dropped is that we're encouraging people to surrender or to change sides.