We're smoking them out: Bush

WASHINGTON, NOV. 26. The U.S. President, Mr. George W. Bush, today said American forces were hunting down those responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S. ``We're smoking them out, they're running and now we're going to bring them to justice,'' he said. The first wave of Marines seized the airfield near Kandahar and encountered no immediate resistance, said the Pentagon spokeswoman, Ms. Victoria Clarke.

``There were no difficulties,'' Ms. Clarke said. Their mission is to establish a forward operating base, she said, declining to further explain their operation except to say the U.S. forces would apply pressure on Taliban militia forces and the Al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden.

Later, speaking in the White House Rose Garden after meeting with two freed humanitarian aid workers, Mr. Bush said, ``We're patient, we're resolved, and we will stay the course until we achieve the objective.

- AP

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