John Reid
John Reid
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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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take stock because there can be no justification for the kind of violence that leaves 39 police officers injured.
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What happened yesterday was that two of our service men were arrested by Iraqi police and under the law as it stands they should have been handed back to the military authorities,
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I can confirm that the two British service personnel detained earlier today by the Iraqi Police Service have now been released and are back with British forces in Multi-National Division (South East),
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And that is why in the course of the day, while we were negotiating, in view of that fact that they weren't handed over, we got increasingly worried and the commander on the spot, with hindsight, was absolutely right to do what he did, because we discovered they weren't in the police station, they were somewhere else, but are now safe,
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We're in the south to help and protect the Afghan people to reconstruct their economy and democracy. We would be perfectly happy to leave in three year's time without firing one shot.
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The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,
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We applaud the bravery of someone willing to help put an end to abuse.
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We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.
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We believe that there are elements of Iranian society - I put it no higher than that - who may well be associated with the attacks on British troops,
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Until we know how the report has been viewed by the match review panel, we have no position,
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We're having a good look around to see if we can get someone who we think can do a job for us.
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The reason Canada has dropped is because Canada is way ahead in doing this.
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We have said all along that our troops will stay there as long as they are needed and requested by the Iraqis, that when they withdraw... it will not be an event, it will be a process.