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...

He still has the capability of recruiting suicide bombers, training them, and giving them munitions,

These spikes of violence are predictable around certain critical events that highlight the progress of democracy, … Remember, democracy equals failure for the insurgency. So there has to be heightened awareness now as we work...

We have reason to believe and evidence to support that the terrorists and foreign fighters are, indeed, using kidnapping as a way to finance their operations.

There are indeed militias, and the Iraqi law wants to integrate those militias into the Iraqi security force or disband those militias. Some of them did that, some of them still have displaced loyalties that...

It is indeed disappointing…

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

As we speak, operations are ongoing to evacuate civilians from neighborhoods targeted by the insurgents.

Our operations are focused on reestablishing Iraqi control of the border, … We will continue this mission for as long as it takes… and leave a sizable and credible force to deter the terrorists.

We have killed or captured 500 members of the insurgency in Tal Afar. Our intelligence estimates told us that the number of insurgents in that town probably was somewhere between 500 and 600. So if...

We’re convinced we’re going to fight our way to the elections,

The Iraqi government, at the point of crisis, decided to impose certain emergency measures. They relied on the Iraqi security forces to implement those measures.

They’ve shifted their sight group their target to the Iraqi civilians and the Iraqi security force and away from the coalition.

With authority, we can say they came from those countries,

We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,

We wanted to take advantage of not only our ability to offer lower prices on our name brand products but also to harness the power of the internet which allows people easy online access to...

In Tal Afar, coalition forces and members of the Iraqi security forces are preparing a possible military operation to rid that city of insurgents,

Now is not the time for the Iraqi government to take specific action against the militias. It’s going to be worked over time.

They’re not going to be leaving early as a result of the hurricane,

We’re not seeing civil war igniting in Iraq.