Mark Kimmitt
Mark Kimmitt
Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmittwas the 16th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, serving under George W. Bush from August 2008 to January 2009. Prior to joining the State Department, he was a Brigadier General in the United States Army, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East. Kimmitt has also served as Deputy Director for Strategy and Plans for the United States Central Command, and Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Military Spokesman for Coalition Forces in...
attempt break coalition fired forces groups inherent perhaps retain rogue surprise
It would not surprise us if there may be an attempt or two by perhaps some rogue groups that may not want to live up to this commitment, ... They may attempt to break this cease-fire. They will find that the coalition forces retain the right, the inherent right, to self-defense, and if they are fired at, they will respond.
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I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,
continue marine minds number though tremendous turned weapons
The negotiations, the discussions in the minds of the Marine commanders, continue to proceed, even though we did not see a tremendous number of weapons turned in today,
coalition drove shots toward vehicle warning
After the warning shots were neglected, the individuals got into their vehicle and drove toward the coalition base,
country create damage few number people takes
It takes a very few number of people in the country to create the kind of damage we are seeing,
hunted
They will be hunted down. They will be captured,
soldiers
another day for the soldiers of the coalition.
happened
After we've notified the families, I think we're going to be a little more forthcoming on what happened up there,
building seemed somewhat
The building seemed to be somewhat of a dormitory,
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You're going to need generals. You're going to need full colonels. You're going to need senior officers to command and control those organizations. Obviously, that is not a skill level that you can get in a series of weeks,
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Some areas are being turned over to this organization in a methodical matter. We understand a couple hundred of these prospective battalion members are going through a transfer of authority.
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What we saw at the strike location, what we had prior to that attack and all of our post-strike intelligence continues to confirm that that was a safe house with a significant amount of ammunition being stored for whatever reason,
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Day after day after day as we continue to get more evidence in ... it is pretty clear to us that what happened that night -- from after midnight to about 0400 -- that the activities that we saw on the ground were somewhat inconsistent with a wedding party,
attacks change civilians continues number rise soft targets
the number of attacks on soft targets and civilians continues to rise ... we think this is a change on the part of the enemy.