I hope it will be resolved in a peaceful manner.

Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.

I would hope that before July, the board will either feel a sufficient level of comfort to maintain the lease or decide to go in a different direction. The lease will be an action item on the March 23 agenda, and it's very possible that a decision could be made then.

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

The greatest danger now is that expectations are too high. The euphoria of the end of the conflict will soon be forgotten.

We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates.