John Reid
John Reid
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It is a process that could start within the next 12 months,
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And I have said since around June that I envisage that that process, which will start unequally in different parts of the country, could start within a year.
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In the course of next year, there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.
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I don't think that anybody has ever suggested our troops will be out of Iraq by next May, ... What I have said is in the course of next year there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.
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I was asked, what was my response to those people who said that what was going on at Heathrow and elsewhere was all part of a public relations exercise, a spin,
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It hadn't improved so we decided to give him time off.
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It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.
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It isn't something that will happen overnight and without discussion,
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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
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It is a matter of political practicality. In the course of the next four years this decision will take place. It will inevitably be more public than such decisions in the past,
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Opening ourselves up to a far greater degree of competition in Europe will ensure in the long run a far more efficient industry, which in turn means far more value for money.
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replace it with a new military-style unit capable of maintaining law and order.
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When that condition has been met, we will hand over the lead in counter-terrorism to the Iraqis,
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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,