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.
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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.
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We've got great intelligence which tells us where he's moving to and where he's trying to establish safe havens, ... We're using all assets under our control in conjunction with the Iraqi security forces to find him and kill him.
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every planned operation, we take cultural sensitivity and things like holidays into consideration. For the momentum of the operations to continue, the decision was made to conduct the operation this morning, fully conscious of the fact that there was indeed a religious holiday, but knowing that it was important to continue the momentum.
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