Rick Lynch
Rick Lynch
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approached at a high rate of speed and then conducted activity that in itself was suspicious. There were individuals hanging outside with what looked to be a weapon. It stopped and immediately put itself in reverse. Again suspicious activity. Our soldiers on the scene used established rules of engagement and all the training received ... (and they) decided that it was appropriate to engage that particular car. And as a result of that the driver was indeed killed and the passenger was hurt by shards of glass.
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What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is, ... That's a 'no'.
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We believe we are experiencing great success against the most crucial element of the insurgency, which is the terrorists and the foreign fighters,
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That's what happened in Baghdad today and that's what happened in Amman yesterday.
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Last year, as we worked through the problem set, that (militias) wasn't a problem set we focused on.
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We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,
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We're not seeing civil war ignited in Iraq. We're seeing a competent, capable Iraqi government using their security forces to calm the storm.
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The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.
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It happened again today and it can happen again tomorrow, ... We are convinced that we are going to fight our way to the elections.
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The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue.
They were bound, they were together, there were no kidnappers in the area.
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What was he doing that caused us to believe he was involved in suspicious activities? And then we will continue to work through our process to determine whether he should remain in detention, be released or transferred into the court system.
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We're studying very hard where this technology is coming from and what we can do to combat that technology,
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Those pictures were pictures of criminal acts that took place many years ago, rogue soldiers doing activity that wasn't supported by their chain of command.