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he would not discuss CIA operations in the area,

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use the word 'ideologically' -- as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam," he said.

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Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where the tempo of Predator strikes

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it is too early to tell whether the gains are permanent

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experts note the lack of success in the U.S. effort to capture bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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remote region where the U.S. military is officially forbidden to operate.

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The Bush administration has been watching political developments in Pakistan with apprehension, worried that the country's newly elected leadership will not be as tolerant of occasional unilateral U.S. strikes against al-Qaeda as was the government of President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism.

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Hayden

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brokered with Pakistan's new leaders

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comfortable with the authorities we have."

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Predator strikes that killed terrorist leaders Abu Laith al-Libi and Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi in Pakistan.

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he said he is concerned that the progress against al-Qaeda could be halted or reversed because of what he considers growing complacency

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The fact that we have kept [Americans] safe for pushing seven years now has got them back into the state of mind where 'safe' is normal," he said. "Our view is: Safe is hard-won, every 24 hours."

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"focused less on the threat and more on the tactics the nation has chosen to deal with the threat" --

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steadily rising competence of the Iraqi military and a growing popular antipathy toward jihadism.

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the insurgency is viewed locally as "more and more a war of al-Qaeda against Iraqis,

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ited the recent writings of prominent Sunni clerics -- including some who used to support al-Qaeda -- criticizing the group for its indiscriminant killing of Muslim civilians.

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U.S. military commanders and intelligence officials deserve some of the credit for the shift, because they "created the circumstances" for it by building strategic alliances with Sunni and Shiite factions, he said.

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progress in Iraq is being undermined by increasing interference by Iran,

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"It is the policy of the Iranian government, approved at the highest levels of that government, to facilitate the killing of American and other coalition forces in Iraq. Period," he said.

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Bush says that he will deal with this constant infterference by iran in Iraq. Bush has ordered the defense dept here in America to prepare for a military strike against Iran.

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