In his request to be relieved of duty, General Fonseka asked the president to allow him to keep a security detail, including trained combat soldiers, and a bullet proof vehicle, saying the defeated rebels are yet capable of trying to kill him.

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He's a veteran trained to kill by the military and by his one-time employer, the police.

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Now you have to allow the police eventually, if they think somebody's going to kill them or try to kill them, to be able to act with all the expertise they have in self-defence and they're trained not to kill somebody but to disarm them and disable them, perfectly proper.

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But we didn't use American forces -- the best trained in the world -- to go kill him.

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