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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Bush Defiant After New Terrorist Threats: President Says U.S. Will 'Complete the Job in Iraq' but Sets No Timetable for Pullout

By Jim VandeHei, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, August 5, 2005; Page A07

CRAWFORD, Tex. -- President Bush said Thursday that the United States will not be bullied by this week's killings of 25 service members in Iraq or what he called the "dark, dim, backwards" views propagated by al Qaeda's number two commander, Ayman Zawahiri, and other terrorists.
Speaking shortly after Zawahiri broadcast a new taped warning that the United States and its allies would suffer thousands of deaths if it did not pull out of Iraq, Bush struck a defiant tone, saying the United States will stay on the offensive to "complete the job in Iraq." He spoke dismissively of Zawahiri, his followers and their ideology and said the twin U.S. strategies to defeat terrorists inside and outside Iraq are working.
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