72 ordspråk av Rick Lynch
Rick Lynch
We're not seeing civil war igniting in Iraq.
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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've got great intelligence which tells us where he's moving to and where he's trying to establish safe havens, ... We're using all assets under our control in conjunction with the Iraqi security forces to find him and kill him.
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We've got to applaud every day the courage and commitment of the Iraqi people. They're doing what they're doing for ... Iraq at great risk and great personal sacrifice.
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What our soldiers on the scene saw was a car coming forward at a highway speed ... (It) looked like cars that we have seen in the past used in suicide bombs, (and) with two nationals inside,
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What our soldiers saw as a result of being on the scene was a car coming forward at a high rate of speed, ... That particular car looked like cars that we have seen in the past be used as suicide bombs...and there were two local nationals inside the car.
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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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What we are seeing him do now is shift his target from the coalition forces to Iraqi civilians and Iraqi security forces. The enemy is trying to stop the formation of this national unity government; he's trying to inflame sectarian violence.
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What we're seeing across Iraq is that the police forces are indeed gaining capability and gaining public confidence. They continue to grow in not just quantity, but in quality and capability.
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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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With authority, we can say they came from those countries,
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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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