Rick Lynch
Rick Lynch
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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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This was part of our normal procedures and not as a result of demands from terrorists or criminals. We do not negotiate with terrorists or criminals.
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The terrorists had seen it coming (and prepared) tunnel complexes to be used as escape routes,
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The terrorists and foreign fighters that he recruits, trains and equips carry out more than 90 percent of the insidious suicide attacks against the men, women and children of Iraq -- attacks that have killed or injured thousands of Iraqis in the last year alone.
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We will continue to work away so we have covered every inch ... of Tal Afar, until we've killed all the terrorists and foreign fighters there,
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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.