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

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

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.

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

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