With a crafty and determined enemy still at large, they say, there is no time to lose.

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But history teaches that the false comfort of complacency is a dangerous indulgence in the face of a determined enemy.

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We face a determined enemy.

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We face a determined and ruthless enemy.

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We all want those risks to be minimised, we all want this conflict to last as little time as possible but equally we have to recognise, as I think Paddy did, that this is a tough enemy, they are determined, they've been fighting for a long time, we have to recognise that there are risks involved in that process.

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The second group that makes up the enemy in Iraq is smaller, but more determined.

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Arguably, it is Mr. Wilner's aggressive representation, along with the determined efforts of the Kuwait government, that has had the greatest influence in the outcome of all the enemy combatant cases, in the court of law and in the court of public opinion.

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