"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

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"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

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"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."

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"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."

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"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."

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"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

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