Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel believes that the risk has been substantially mitigated through the assurances that we received through the Emir of Qatar, i would remind you that these are assurances that the emir personally gave to the President of the United States. I'm not going to go into every detail on these assurances, but -- but the secretary is comfortable that the risk is mitigated through these assurances.

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