Talks to a Reuters TV reporter in Washington, D.C., about the surge strategy against al-Qaida, updates on al-Qaida and their weakened state, the progress made against terrorists and overall violence, the drop in foreign fighters, al-Qaida using women as suicide bombers, preventing al-Qaida from regrouping, al-Qaida leaders, allowing locals or those formerly with the insurgency to join Iraq's counterinsurgency, the Sons of Iraq and having them join the government and the Iraqi forces, areas in Iraq that still have fighting with al-Qaida, applying Iraq's lessons to the overall fight on terror.
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