Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

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.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

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.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.