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  COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH MAJOR GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY
DEMPSEY: Well, the only definitive evidence of that, of course, is the now famous Zarqawi letter where he says we have a finite, closing window of opportunity to influence the future of Iraq.
DEMPSEY: The single biggest impediment to gaining intelligence on homegrown domestic terrorism is an unwillingness on the part of the Iraqi people to acknowledge it.
DEMPSEY: This is a work in progress for us in terms of trying to determine the linkages that I spoke about earlier.
www.cpa-iraq.org /transcripts/20040318_Mar18_Dempsey.html   (6706 words)

  
  Martin Dempsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lieutenant General Martin E. Dempsey, as of April 2006, is the commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I).
MNSTC-I is the U.S.-led Coalition's primary command responsible for recruiting, training, and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces, and is the parent heaquarters for the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT), and the Coalition Air Force Training Team (CAFTT).
During the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then-Brigadier General Dempsey commanded the 1st Armored Division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Dempsey   (130 words)

  
 Dempsey & Makepeace Episode Guide
Dempsey and Makepeace uncover a plot to murder Spikings while investigating the kidnaping of a police informant's son.
Dempsey and Makepeace must foil an attempt by a right-wing extremist group to overthrow the British government by flooding the country with counterfeit currency.
Dempsey is on the trail of a boxer turned-murderer who eluded a police stakeout.
www.dempseyandmakepeace.de /epguide.html   (960 words)

  
 FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
Martin Dempsey said the campaign in Iraq was at a critical point.
Dempsey was asked about the remarks of two other U.S. commanders who questioned the wisdom of banning former Baath Party members from government jobs when their skills are needed in the reconstruction effort.
But Dempsey added: "On the other hand, the entire part of the population that was disenfranchised during these 35 years, largely the Shiite population, absolutely has no trust in any former member of the Baath Party.
www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=17659   (699 words)

  
 The Eden Daily News
Dempsey tried to calm him down, but he pulled a pocketknife out and started walking toward her, coming to within 6 inches of her throat.
Martin told investigators she pulled out the gun to scare him away and told Chilton that she was happy with Chris (her husband).
Martin said he kept struggling to come after her, so she ran behind him and shot him in the head from a distance of 1 to 2 feet.
www.edendailynews.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=EDN/MGArticle/EDN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782378225&path=!news!localnews   (954 words)

  
 House Armed Services Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dempsey said the rocket-propelled grenades, small arms, and bomb-making materials found in the caches were "significant items to take off the streets for the safety of all."
Dempsey confirmed reports that Iraqi police captured two men today attempting to place a roadside bomb near an oil refinery in Dora City.
Dempsey said the initial indication is that one of the men is an Iranian citizen, the other an Afghan citizen.
www.house.gov /hasc/GoodNews/JointopsFeb2.html   (461 words)

  
 JS Online: Insurgents linked to control center
Last month, the Army rounded up what Dempsey believes is one of the guerrilla cells blamed for attacks in Baghdad, including the Oct. 26 rocket strike on the Al-Rasheed Hotel during the stay of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
Although Dempsey spoke about the Baghdad operation, an ambush Sunday in the town of Samarra, north of the capital, also showed heightened coordination.
Hertling said the FBI found that the paint was the same as that used on the front gate of a man in custody.
www.jsonline.com /news/gen/dec03/189464.asp?format=print   (938 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Martin E. Dempsey, commander of the Wiesbaden, Germany-based 1st Armor Division, talks in Baghdad on Aug. 9 to the "Bandits," the 1st Battalion of the 37th Armor.
Dempsey is warning his troops to get ready for an enemy “that wants to make a big, big splash, like dropping the Palestine,” a major hotel where many Westerners live.
Dempsey said the biggest threats to the coalition are, in order of seriousness, former Saddam Hussein loyalists, common criminals and terrorists.
www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=16537&archive=true   (937 words)

  
 Navy Times - News - More News.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Martin Dempsey, the commander in charge of training and equipping the Iraqi military and police, told reporters at the Pentagon that 225,000 members of the Iraqi army and police will be operating during this month’s elections for a permanent Iraqi government.
Dempsey, who spoke from Baghdad by a satellite video connection, also said U.S. officials are in discussions with Iraqi government officials to determine when the Iraqis will assume financial responsibility for the training and equipping of their security forces.
Dempsey said the Iraqis have yet to decide how much of their overall budget they want to devote to defense.
www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1390349.php   (522 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes
Martin Dempsey acknowledges that 1st Armored Division soldiers are being asked to stay in a combat zone longer than any U.S. soldiers have in half a century, but he said a change in mission should lessen fatigue and allow troops to refocus their efforts.
Martin Dempsey learned his 1st Armored Division soldiers would be ordered to stay and fight longer than any U.S. soldiers have in half a century, he asked for two things.
Dempsey said that although he expects 1st AD will be sent home within four months, the Pentagon has not committed to a certain date.
www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=20920&archive=true   (847 words)

  
 Dempsey v. Martin (1999) [99-5283]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pro se petitioner John B. Dempsey sought leave to proceed in forma pauperis in the U.S. Supreme Court under Rule 39 with respect to a petition for certiorari.
All eighteen of Dempsey's previous petitions were deemed frivolous by the Court and denied without recorded dissent.
Noting that Dempsey had abused this Court's certiorari and extraordinary writ processes, the Court directed the Clerk not to accept any further petitions for certiorari or petitions for extraordinary writs from Dempsey in noncriminal matters unless he first pays the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and submits his petitions in compliance with Rule 33.1.
www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/case/693/abstract   (246 words)

  
 DoD News: 1st Armored Division Commanding General's Briefing from Baghdad
General Dempsey will be, at the appropriate moment, asking for questions from the Pentagon and you can address your questions through there; we'll attempt that.
     Dempsey:  Yeah, there are three aspects to that question, and I've lost the first one.  The second one was the status, the legal status, essentially, of Saddam Hussein.  And I don't know the answer to that, ma'am.  And that's not something that the 1st Armor Division will determine.
     Dempsey:  Yeah, I can't be much more specific.  But I think that those that are working that particular facet of the intelligence effort have come to the conclusion that he wasn't directly coordinating things.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2003/tr20031231-1083.html   (2803 words)

  
 Iraqis now fight alongside U.S. - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
Martin Dempsey said of his attempts to stiffen the backs of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps.
Dempsey said "40% walked off the job because they were intimidated, and 10% actually worked against us." In the fierce fight for Fallujah, all but 15 of the 2,200 U.S.-trained Iraqi troops deserted.
Dempsey said the U.S. made a mistake in not moving against al-Sadr sooner, but he also said he would be willing to recruit al-Sadr's fighters if they agreed to switch sides.
www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?t=639   (448 words)

  
 BG Dempsey Briefing 20 November
In addition, I remind you that General Dempsey is the operational commander for military operations and not a political spokesperson.
GEN. DEMPSEY: To the first, the cordon and search is one of about three different missions that we run very routinely and, in fact, have been doing it since we arrived in Baghdad.
GEN. DEMPSEY: I mean, we are receiving intelligence -- as I mentioned at the very beginning of my briefing, the amount of human intelligence that, particularly in the aftermath of the suicide bombers at the police stations, that has begun to come in to us is rather significant and, I think you would say, impressive.
cpa-iraq.org /transcripts/20031121_Nov-20-BG-Dempsey-Briefing-post.htm   (6072 words)

  
 Iraqi Security Forces to Multiply
Martin E. Dempsey, chief of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, told Pentagon reporters during a satellite news conference from Iraq.
Dempsey said about 225,000 Iraqi soldiers and police will be available to provide security for Iraq's Dec. 15 nationwide election.
Dempsey said about $10.6 billion was budgeted as part of a two-year plan for developing Iraqi security forces.
nyjtimes.com /cover/12-19-05/IraqiForcesToMultiply.htm   (1006 words)

  
 TRANSCRIPT OF DEC. 31 BRIEFING ON IRAQ OPERATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dempsey: We had better intelligence on what we believed to be the activities of Christmas Day than we do the activities leading up to New Year's Day.
Dempsey: Yeah, there are three aspects to that question, and I've lost the first one.
Dempsey: Yeah, well those two questions are related and so -- meaning is it satisfactory to disrupt vice defeat, and do I think there will always be some kind of insurgency here.
www.vcorps.army.mil /News/2004/jan5_brief.htm   (5613 words)

  
 KOMO : Iraqi Rebels Better Organized Than Thought
There is still no sign of a military-style command structure in the city or in Iraq as a whole, Dempsey told a group of reporters in an unusually detailed account of the Iraqi insurgency.
Last month, the Army rounded up what Dempsey believes is one of the guerrilla cells blamed for attacks in Baghdad, including the Oct. 26 rocket strike on the Al-Rasheed Hotel that occurred during the stay of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
In Baghdad, rebel attacks have come in waves that Dempsey said appear to start when an order is given.
www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=28592   (931 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / General: Shiite militia wins U.S. respect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Martin Dempsey, commander of the Army's 1st Armored Division, said military leaders were then considering a strike on al-Sadr, but were advised to hold back.
Dempsey and other U.S. commanders have said they won't risk turning Iraq's majority Shiites into enemies by storming the shrines.
Dempsey said U.S. soldiers battling the Shiite fighters -- members of the 1st Armored Division and the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment -- have shown grudging admiration for al-Sadr's guerrillas.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/05/14/general_shiite_militia_wins_us_respect?mode=PF   (622 words)

  
 DoD News: News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey
And General Dempsey, this is Bryan Whitman at the Pentagon.
GEN. DEMPSEY: (Off mike) The supplementals came to us is that they -- the supplemental comes in a -- it's the fiscal year `05 supplemental, but it's -- the spend plan runs out through 30 September of `06.
GEN. DEMPSEY: The special police, in particular, provide a vital function in countering the insurgents and terrorist and foreign fighter threat because they are a bridge for us.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/12/mil-051202-dod03.htm   (4267 words)

  
 DoD News: DoD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Dempsey
GEN. DEMPSEY: No, the answer is I can't give you that because I don't track the TRA levels except monthly when I get -- when they are reviewed with General Casey, General Chiarelli and I together.
GEN. DEMPSEY: Well, as I recall in Pete's briefing, he said that he thought that 75 percent of Iraq would be in -- under the control of Iraqi security forces by the end of the year.
GEN. DEMPSEY: It is complex and it's really very far along, and it is exactly as Dave briefed it to you last year.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2006/tr20060324-12701.html   (4807 words)

  
 CPA BRIEFING, 1ST ARMORED DIVISION OPERATIONS, MAJOR GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
DEMPSEY: Well, that is -- our goal -- I wouldn't describe our goal as to have Iraqi forces remove him, except if they're Iraqi police and ICDC that are part of what we're trying to build as a legitimate force.
DEMPSEY: In order, I will tell you that there is what we consider to be low level intel, that is to say walk-ins, who say that there are in fact people that have come from Fallujah.
DEMPSEY: Well, again, because he's under indictment by the Iraqi legal system, the only one that can release him from that particular challenge is the Iraqi criminal system.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1134219/posts   (7792 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
DEMPSEY: As to the number of personnel involved in the attack, we did have some of our -- what we describe as our FPS, facilities protective service personnel, within about 100 meters of the location.
DEMPSEY: Again, I really do not know the names -- I know the names of the military personnel, because that's the part of this mission that I'm responsible for.
CALLEBS: OK. We're listening to General Martin Dempsey; he's the commander of the 1st Armored Division, holding a news conference in Baghdad bringing us up to date on the rocket attack at the al Rasheed Hotel that happened just after 6:00 in the morning Baghdad time.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0310/26/se.01.html   (3252 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Gen. Martin Dempsey, the New Man in Charge of Training the Iraqi Army, Talks with Bill O'Reilly - Bill ...
DEMPSEY: Well, what I say is that the — Iraq as a country hasn't given up on itself.
DEMPSEY: Militias will go away in this country when the central government and its security forces are providing security to the satisfaction of the people.
DEMPSEY: And they believe that those that are fighting the fight on the ground believe that there are members of the Shi'ia militia who have been trained by Iranian agents, who are killing American soldiers.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,237485,00.html   (1202 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi forces 'turn on coalition'
Maj Gen Martin Dempsey said about 10% of new officers were rebels and a further 40% had left their jobs - but the rest "stood tall and stood firm".
Gen Dempsey, commander of the US army's 1st Armored Division, told media executives in an interview that he believed popular support for the coalition among Iraqis remained high, though it could not be taken for granted.
Gen Dempsey, who commands the units in charge of Baghdad, said he believed the attacks in Basra may have been ordered to grab the headlines while other areas of Iraq were relatively calm.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3648489.stm   (618 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Raid yields clues on insurgents
Acting quickly after realizing the significance of the document, which Dempsey likened to minutes of a meeting, troops of the 1st Armored Division conducted raids Sunday and Monday that netted three former Iraqi generals suspected of financing and guiding insurgent operations in the Baghdad area.
Dempsey declined to name the three officers who were arrested.
He said none was on the Pentagon's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis but that their family names were familiar to US authorities, suggesting that relatives of the men had come under suspicion.
www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2003/12/17/raid_yields_clues_on_insurgents?mode=PF   (398 words)

  
 Wolfowitz was not target of attack: US -DAWN - Top Stories; October 27, 2003
Dempsey said Wolfowitz had been inside the targeted Rashid Hotel, but could not say exactly where he was inside the building at the time of the attack early Sunday.
Dempsey believed that “there is no doubt that it (attack) required reconnaissance and some rehearsal.
Dempsey accused the attackers of trying to “discredit” recent steps by the US-led coalition to improve security, including the reopening of a key bridge and the lifting of the nighttime curfew in the capital for the month of Ramazan.
www.dawn.com /2003/10/27/top7.htm   (410 words)

  
 In Iraq, 2006 is the "Year of the Police," says U.S. General
Dempsey said that this progress could be seen in a growing Iraqi army that increasingly leads counterinsurgency operations, as well as in a police force that will be responsible for security along all 3,631 kilometers of Iraq's borders by July.
As part of the effort to build trust in the police, Dempsey’s command has worked with Iraqi authorities to encourage diversity in hiring, training, and deploying new army and police units.  Dempsey said that authorities recently decided to merge two national police forces to better reflect the country's diverse communities.
Dempsey said that his command also works very closely with Iraqi authorities to investigate reports of police misconduct.
usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=March&x=20060324145118idybeekcm0.5733606&t=is/is-latest.html   (531 words)

  
 Lock Haven University Athletics :: Full Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dempsey wasn’t done there as two weeks later, he topped the bar at 7-feet-1 3/4 at the Kent State Tune-Up.
Both Dempsey and Martin are at their first indoor NCAA meet, but Dempsey competed in the outdoor last year.
Martin took second place at the Bucknell Heptagonal in the 55m hurdles with a time of 7.68.
havensports.com /fullstory2.php?storyid=415   (1049 words)

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