we've got two traunchs of transitions that have occurred. a% of the population is now under afghan security and control. the third traunch which will take place this year will put 75% of the people under afghan security and control. the plan and the strategy that general allen has developed and that nato supports is to proceed with that plan, to take us through 2013, and be able to complete the final transitions. and then draw down to the end of 2014. and then beyond that, to have an enduring presence there that represents continuing effort to provide support to the afghans on counterterrorism, on training advice and assist in other areas. >> thank you, mr. larson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen thanks for being here. general dempsey earlier before votes you were answering questions about chemical and buy logical weapons in syria. i don't want to recharacterize your comments so ill say what i thought i heard and then you can recharacterize more accurately. did you say that you thought we had sufficient transparency into the security a

the testing was conducted last year in two separate traunches, the first in the first half of the year, and then after proposed modification and evaporating structure, and we did a second set of tests with the government and ran a second set of tests in the second half of the year. basically we were trying to determine the extent to which the light squared operations would interfere with or overload g.p.s. receivers. our technical evaluation concluded, as you indicated in february, that as currently planned, we could not find a way to solve the interference issues and still leave light squared with what it seemed to be a viable network. now we did take the test results that emerged out of the testing last fall and use that data to come back to light squared with an option as to how they could proceed to bill without causing interference or overload to the g.p.s. receivers, but quite reasonably, they looked at it and concluded that because it would involve really ramping back the power of their network did not end with a viable commercial network and that left us where we had to end up,

murdoch has provides us comes in difference traunches and having regard to the experience with some witnessesfl you're moving from bundle to bundle, if somebody could help him do that. >> i swear by the almighty god that the evidence i shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> your full name, mr. murdoch. >> keith rupert murdoch. >> in front of you, i believe you'll see a witness statement. you signed and dated the 12th of april of this year with 44 exhibits, there's a declaration of truth on it. the inquiry -- are you content that the inquiry receive yours statement? >> yes. >> mr. murdoch, i will say i am grateful for the preparation of your evidence and the material you placed before the inquirly and i wanted to inquire -- to record that. >> you are the chairman and chief executive officer of news corporation, a company incorporated in the united states. >> yes. >> with total assets of $60 billion and a total annual world revenue of $34 billion. is that right? >> approximately, yes. >> for our purpose, we can be more parochial, approximately 8% of news co