Steve Boylan
Steve Boylan
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activities beginning cause closer expected fear increase saw toward year
As we get closer to the referendum, just as we saw at the beginning of the year going toward the (January 30) election, it's always expected that they (insurgents) will increase their activities to try to cause intimidation and fear in those who would go out to vote.
early process
They are not going to redeploy early as they are already in the process of redeployment,
capture surrender
They went in to capture him, he did not surrender and he was killed in the raid,
information intelligence led specific tracking
We got specific information and intelligence that led us to him, ... We've been tracking him for a while.
field forces iraqi time
What's different this time is there are more Iraqi forces in the field with more experience,
number whoever
And whoever replaces him as number two, we will go after him as well.
casualties insurgent operations proactive terrorists time
As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up,
certainly events given guess hard possible
I guess it is certainly possible given some of the spectacular events, but hard to say,
bring draw insurgency less people
The more people you bring into the process, the less people the insurgency has to draw upon,
almost impossible physically shut
To say it's shutdown is difficult. It's almost impossible to physically shut it down.
actively network number shows taken
This shows that we are actively going after the network. We've taken down the number two in the network and that is going to have an impact,
citizen iraqi led tip tracking
We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him, ... We've been tracking him for a while.
citizen iraqi joint led tip tracking
We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him, ... It was a joint US-Iraqi operation. We?ve been tracking him for a while.
citizen iraqi joint led tip tracking
We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him, ... It was a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation. We've been tracking him for a while.