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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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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You will see, over the next several weeks -- we're not specifying any time -- specific military operations to target the insurgency in Tal Afar,
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The terrorists had seen it coming (and prepared) tunnel complexes to be used as escape routes,
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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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We're studying very hard where this technology is coming from and what we can do to combat that technology,
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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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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 have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,
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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,