The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Our goal is to find out what happened, how it happened and [determine] how we can prevent this from happening again.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

We encourage them to take steps. To stop terror attacks, to prevent them from happening. And we urge them also to act to dismantle terrorist organizations.

It's become a primary target. It's a softer target, as you know, but it is a primary target to attack these forces. There have been hundreds and hundreds - thousands, probably - of Iraqi security forces killed. Sometimes they're attacked by suicide bombers, but they have become a primary target. It is very dangerous business training these troops, for that reason alone.

a terror attack which has international links.