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is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, that is militarily effective and loyal to the established civil government.

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Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 911 is protect everything all the time.

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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

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In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

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But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

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Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

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What I've asked for is essentially to have a strong mobile combat arms capability, ... That's probably about two brigades worth of combat power, if not more.

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Militarily we are not in any danger of losing. We can't be defeated militarily based on what the enemy currently throws against us.

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I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

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Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

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Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

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Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives.

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But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

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As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists it's not just Zarqawi.

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In terms of comparison from six months ago, in terms of foreign fighters, I believe there are more foreign fighters coming into Iraq than there were six months ago, ... In terms of overall strength of the insurgency, I would say it is the same as it was.

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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

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We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

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We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

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And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

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Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

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The war has moved to the west, which is a good . . . indicator that Iraqi and U.S. forces are having an effect elsewhere, ... The amount of infiltration across the Syrian border remains a concern, but it's down, not so much because of Syrian activity, but because of U.S. and Iraqi activity.

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