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us and Iraqi forces seized another

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cache of weapons inside Iraq that they

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say is definitive proof of Iran's

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involvement in the insurgency and with

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the militias U . S . Army . Lieutenant

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General Ray Odierno knows this land

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well and knows the operation this

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before and he's in charge of the daily

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operations on the ground joining us

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from Baghdad General . How important

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was the villa raid and would have

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produced in terms of intelligence ?

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Well , first off it's extremely

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important because we found yesterday

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along we found four separate caches .

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Uh , you saw the one I think earlier uh

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where we have a significant amount of

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what we call explosively formed

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projectiles which are the deadliest I .

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E . Ds that are used against our

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soldiers . Up to we think what we found

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that could have made up to 140 of these

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kind of things . It's further proof

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that there's links of being getting

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supported Iraqi extremists being

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supported from Iran but this is not

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yesterday . Count three other cachet is

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one in Baghdad which we think might

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have been a vehicle born I . E . D .

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Factory and two others in Fallujah and

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out of Baghdad which was contained in a

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simple amount of IED making material .

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Uh , so it's , we had some significant

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fines yesterday . Wow , what a great

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day , which does not get enough

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reporting on it . There's a report .

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General . I want to see what you think

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about this . A lot of the militias

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since we telegraphed the surge and the

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changing tactics . A lot of the Shia

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militia have left town including L .

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Sadder because they don't want to see

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you head to head . Is that true ? Are

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you finding that ? Well , not sure . We ,

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we have picked up about 600 of uh , of

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the Shia extremists here in the last 60

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days . Uh , so we think that had

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something to do with it to uh , if they

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haven't quite on the ground , that's

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fine . Uh , so we can go ahead and

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provide security of the populace of

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Baghdad . We're not going anywhere .

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We're gonna be here for a while .

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That's the difference is we're gonna

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come in here with a sniff the amount of

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force led by the Iraqis were going to

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stay here for a period of time . And uh ,

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we want to provide protection for the

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populace to give time for the

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government of Iraq to continue to

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mature as well as a security force

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because they are maturing every single

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day . Yeah , and we hope as quick as

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possible uh , in the Al Anbar province ,

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one of the Sunni Vice President said ,

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you know , this surge , the U . S . Led

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surge is really beaten up on the

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Alhambra area . Alhambra province area

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and not enough on in the Shia areas

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like Cedar city . Are you going into

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Sunni areas first and more ? No , we're

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doing it a very balanced attack . In

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fact , it's very interesting here . We

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get complaints from Shias and we get

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complaints from Sunnis . So that makes

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us think we're doing it about right ,

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because we're going after all targets

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were going after extremist targets . It

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doesn't matter if they're Sunni or Shia ,

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some in Al Anbar province , some south

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of Baghdad and some inside of Baghdad .

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This is about again protecting the

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whole populous of Baghdad . And we'll

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go out to anyone who is acting against

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the government of Iraq . It's really

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not shooting or she is who's acting

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against the government of Iraq . A

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General joe Lieberman points out in the

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Wall Street general today that

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everyone's focused on 21,500 troops .

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But the new plan that you and General

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Petraeus are making happen right now is

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much more than 21,000 more troops . Can

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you explain ? Well , well , first off ,

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uh , it's the enablers I was from that

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neighbors that come with that force .

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It's , it's the increased amount of

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intelligence . Uh , it's the increased

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amount of burial capability that comes

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with that . So it's all those other

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neighbors that come with it . But it's

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also really , we have moved forward

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into the neighborhoods . Uh , we are

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spouses joint security stations . What

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we call combat outpost . And the reason

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we found these cash cash is yesterday

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was because people , once we get out

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with out there every day with them and

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come with us with lots of information

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they really become familiar with , is

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to become comfortable with us . They're

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being there with the Iraqi security

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forces , they see us out there every

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single day every morning , every night .

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We get to know the neighborhoods , We

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know who's good , who's bad . Now .

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We're just beginning and we hope this

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will continue as we move forward with

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this general . Thanks so much for your

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time . Thanks to the effort and thanks

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for putting this plan in place . Thank

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you . It's always great talking to you ,

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brian . All right , general agenda

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right from Baghdad , taking a break out

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from the body to tell us what's

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happening .