Rumsfeld expects more violence
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told marines in Iraq&#39;s restive western provinces today to expect a spike in violence before January polls and that US forces would stay at current levels at least until next year.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he does not expect civil war in Iraq and pointed to the recent retaking of the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra as evidence of progress in stabilizing the country before elections in January.
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Two blasts have killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad hours before US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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WASHINGTON - Iraq does not have to be perfectly peaceful before the United States can withdraw its troops, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June. Speaking to 1,500 Marines at an air base he said the insurgent violence is likely
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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld didn&#39;t bring much good news to a group of Marines in Iraq. He warned Sunday during a town-hall meeting in at an airbase in the country&#39;s west that violence may well
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Looking more subdued than during most of his public appearances at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to a barrage of criticism Wednesday by saying
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Violence in Iraq could worsen after this weekend's elections because insurgents may exploit the uncertain period while polling results are certified and the government assembled, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew  into Iraq on Friday and warned it would take time to build  Iraqi security forces capable of crushing the country's bloody  insurgency.
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BAGHDAD -- Top US generals warned yesterday that violence will increase in Baghdad during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and said Al Qaeda in Iraq already has intensified its assaults against American troops.
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A rocket attack and suicide car bombing  killed at least four people in Baghdad Sunday as Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq to  gauge efforts to calm violence before January elections.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated on Saturday that US commanders in Iraq may yet decide they need more US troops to ensure a viable national election in January.
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Predicting a surge of violence between now and the end of the year, Rumsfeld said the government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was determined to hold the elections for a national assembly on schedule.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war, urged the United States on Friday not to retreat in the face of "the agonies and ugliness of combat."
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The U.S. military reported four more combat deaths on Wednesday after the man tapped to take over command of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Americans may have to lower their expectations for Iraq.
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Teeing off two reports detailing abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Senator John Kerry on Wednesday renewed his call for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
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A rocket attack and suicide car bombing killed at least four people in Baghdad Sunday as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence before January elections.