"Carter F. Ham" is a former United States Army General (United States)/general, who served as the second Commander, U.S. Africa Command. In that position, he was in command of the initial 2011 military intervention in Libya.

Ham previously served as the Commanding General of the United States Army Europe/U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army from August 28, 2008 to March 8, 2011. Prior to that, he served as Director for Operations (J-3) at the Joint Staff from August 2007 to August 2008 and the Commanding General, 1st Infantry Division (United States)/U.S. 1st Infantry Division from August 2006 to August 2007, and during the Balkan crisis in the mid 1990s was the commander of "Operation Able Sentry" in Macedonia.

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This is a very lethal, and unfortunately, adaptive enemy that we are faced with inside Iraq.

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I can tell you that they were a unit that was moving in an amphibious assault vehicle ... their normal vehicle to move in, ... It is an armored vehicle that they use in the conduct of their normal operations.

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It's fairly well understood that coalition forces are making a concerted effort to protect personnel and vehicles throughout the country as they are moving, and the enemy is seeking ways to counter that increased protected effort.

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Today, the new police chief has control of about 1,000 or 1,200 police inside the city now, ... And we think they'll probably -- they'll grow a little bit between now and the election, maybe about 1,500 or so.

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We'll do everything we can to help them.

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We are seeing larger amounts of explosives.

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We just don't know what happened.

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There's still a bit more coming and some that will leave, but that's a pretty good number, I think, for where we'll be through the referendum.

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They are dangerous and they certainly have a capability, ... But whether or not they have an ability to freely operate in that area, I think not.

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