These people are being held. And they're bad actors. And as long as this situation continues, this war on terror continues, I'm not sure I can tell you what the ultimate disposition of those detainees will be.

They have provided some valuable intelligence information with respect to the war on terror.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

The lifting of sanctions marks a momentous event for the people of Iraq. After more than a decade of being frozen out of the world economy, it is time for the Iraqi people to benefit from their natural resources.

The transitional arrangements that come into being will also allow the people of Iraq to benefit from their natural resources in a manner that will be transparent, and where the secretary-general and his representative will play an important role,

hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own affairs.