Note: The President's news conference began at 4:49 p.m. in the briefing room. In his remarks, the President referred to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC; Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari and Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, senior ISIL commanders who were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, on June 25; Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, an ISIL senior leader known as Omar al-Shishani; President Bashar al-Asad of Syria; Umar Khalifa, also known as Khalifa Omar Mansoor, a leader of the Tariq Gidar Group who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, on July 9; Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, and Matthew Trevithick, U.S. citizens released from Iranian custody in January; White House Press Secretary Joshua R. Earnest; Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif-Khonsari of Iran; Harry Sarfo, a former member of ISIL serving a 3-year prison sentence in Bremen, Germany, on terrorism charges; Willie Horton, a convicted felon who was sentenced for crimes committed during a weekend furlough program in Massachusetts in 1986; Acting U.S. Pardon Attorney Robert A. Zauzmer; and President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia. He also referred to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.
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Obama, Barack H. "The President's News Conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, August 4, 2016." In Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack H. Obama, 2016, Book 2-July 1 to January 20, 2017, 1087 - 1099. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office. 2016.
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APA
Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration.
(2016, July 1).
2016 Public Papers 1087 - The President's News Conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration.
2016 Public Papers 1087 - The President's News Conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration,
(1 Jul 2016),
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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, The President's News Conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, GovInfo, (July 1, 2016),
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