That is the right policy for the United States, and it's the policy that will, A, ensure that we are able to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda, and ensure that we draw our forces down and bring American men and women home.

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The only missions that we are contemplating and discussing with the Afghans involves counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda, which we would need to carry out to ensure that al Qaeda cannot reestablish a safe haven in Afghanistan, and then continued training of Afghan forces.

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He developed a strategy that made clear that our number-one priority, the reason why we are in Afghanistan, is because of al Qaeda, and that our number-one objective for our mission in Afghanistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al Qaeda, and that all other objectives that are secondary to that help support the primary objective.

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Ms. AL-SUWAIJ: There is always a hope, and we are trying to work so hard to achieve that.

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As John Brennan and others have said, the President has said, we are continuing the fight against al Qaeda every day.

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"We see this as an opportunity to show a larger group the quality of what we are doing and, in that sense, enlarge our presence, " said Al Hunt, the executive editor of Bloomberg News, which is sending 150 people to the conventions, three times its 2008 contingent.

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They may find it useful to exchange equipment, exchange tactics but they are not the same organisation and I think the suggestion that by going into Iraq we are exposing ourselves to additional threat from al-Qaeda is probably not correct.

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"We are working on the equality of men and women in the new constitution, " said lawyer Hannan al-Nuwesri emphatically.

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In recent research (Chernenko et al. 2010), we propose a new and alternative view for the emergence of ownership structures that are prone to severe agency problems.

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