John Reid
John Reid
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We should have no illusion as to the severity of the struggle we face against international terror. It will be long, it will wide and it will be deep,
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The total number of troops in Iraq following the deployment of 7 Armored Brigade will be around 8,000,
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It doesn't matter because they still couldn't beat us. They couldn't have beaten us if they'd brought somebody down out of the stands.
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While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,
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We do not have designs to stay (in Iraq) as an occupying imperial power. Nor are we going to cut and run because of terrorists,
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We are not saying that everyone will be out by the end of 2006 but we are saying that this process - despite the terrorist attempts to destroy it - is going relatively well, and, in the course of the next year, we could well see the handover to Iraqi forces at certain places in Iraq, including in our own area,
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We made it plain that any company which did come in and buy this as a going concern would receive the appropriate support.
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We have always made plain that any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable,
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The armed forces of both India and the UK pride themselves on excellence, and the increase in the number of joint exercises and training opportunities between the two countries will only serve to strengthen that relationship further,
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Troops are facing a dark time in Iraq but we won't quit,
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I don't know who Mr Des Smith is. He doesn't speak with any authority for the Government at all.
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I am delighted that Her Majesty has seen fit to mark the outstanding gallantry, professionalism and commitment of so many service personnel operating in difficult and challenging environments. I am immensely proud of their achievements and congratulate them all.
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I am aware that the company are going to make a statement and it will involve the whole operation.
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I am sorry about yesterday. I was on the platform. We didn't want it. It shouldn't have happened. It's not the way we do things in here.