Now is not the time for the Iraqi government to take specific action against the militias. It's going to be worked over time.
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Our soldiers on the scene use an established rule of engagement ... In this case, our soldiers took the appropriate action,Rick Lynch
You will see, over the next several weeks -- we're not specifying any time -- specific military operations to target the insurgency in Tal Afar,
Rick Lynch
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.
Rick Lynch
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 have joined the Iraqi security forces ... and they could conduct the same kind of thing that we saw in that particular event.
Rick Lynch
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.
Rick Lynch
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 some got away, it wasn't very many.
Rick Lynch
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