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Rumsfeld: 'For US Libya is a sideshow, Syria is key'

Donald Rumsfeld was US Defence Secretary in the Bush administration at the time of the 9/11 attacks on Washington and New York.

Here he talks to Newsnight's Kirsty Wark about the ongoing unrest in Syria, why he thinks what happens there is of much greater significance to the US than events in Libya, and what should be done.

Watch the full interview in Newsnight's hour-long special programme on the 9/11 decade at 10.30pm on BBC Two on Friday 9 September 2011, then afterwards on the BBC iPlayer and Newsnight website.

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