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WASHINGTON: Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern military, was unraveled by the long and costly Iraq invasion, died on Tuesday. He was 88. In a statement on Wednesday, Rumsfeld’s family said he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico. Regarded by former colleagues as equally smart …

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