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Well , I think there's a very

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comprehensive security plan , uh ,

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that's in place right now . And I think

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that the evidence bears that out , that

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there's been many , many days of

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relative calm and uh , and what this

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enemy has got to do is he can only

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sustain a few attacks , uh , at one

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time , and he tries to take all of the

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resources that he can muster at one

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time for and and to try to have one

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type of spectacular attack . And this

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was again the case , uh , that that

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took place uh , in the last 24 hours .

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I will tell you if you look at the days

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preceding it , that's absolutely

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correct . Uh , they've got a security

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in terms of the Iraqi police , in terms

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of the Iraqi Army and of course , uh ,

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their partners , that's us , the

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coalition forces that are assisting

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them . And we have gone just about an

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entire week where the where the number

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of attacks have been well below the

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average preceding this attack . This

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one that we're talking about also had

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success . That was part of it . There

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were losses as far as the Iraqi police

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were concerned . But there were some of

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my men that were able to respond also

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killed a number of the Attackers and in

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fact captured their cars that had a lot

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more rockets and bombs in them and then

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uh , disrupted the remainder of the

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attack . So I think that's a clear

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indication of the , uh , the type of

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effectiveness that we're having . It's

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regrettable that there were , I'm sorry ,

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but there is it's regrettable that

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there were some , uh , casualties and

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that there were some collateral damage

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with innocent civilians . And I think

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that's just an indication of the

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cowardice of the terrorists , the

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terrorists that we're dealing with .