12/29/2004
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"All blocked funds held in the United States in accounts in the name of the Government of Iraq are hereby confiscated and vested in the Department of the Treasury."
"Our efforts in Afghanistan have met with success, but as I have stated in my previous reports, the U.S. campaign against terrorism will be lengthy."
"I intend that such vested property should be used to assist the Iraqi people and to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq."
"We currently hold more than 600 enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay."