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Transcript: PETRAEUS: IRAQ SECURITY PLAN CAN WORK, BUT WILL TAKE TIME
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- March 8, 2007
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INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
03-08-2007
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 - A new strategy that puts U.S. and Iraqi forces
inside Baghdad neighborhoods to safeguard residents against insurgent and
sectarian violence can work, but it'll take time to be fully implemented,
the top U.S. military commander in Iraq said in Baghdad during his first
news conference today. "We and our Iraqi partners recognize that improving
security for the Iraqi people is the first step in rekindling hope," said
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who became Multinational Force Iraq commander
Feb. 10. "The upward spiral we all want begins with Iraqi and coalition
forces working together and locating in the neighborhoods ...
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