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Report to the Pentagon inspector: Baghdad handed over idle military equipment ... and our advisors were surprised their mission
Translation: Ahmed Alaa
When regain control of Iraqi cities fighting stopped, Ramadi and Baiji, an American, in the judge training and equipping the Iraqi army and help to restore those areas of Washington program, showing that the United States faces today internal problems on the program, according to the inspector general's report the Pentagon issued yesterday.
Report of the Office of the Inspector General, which amounted to 48 pages in size, was very important in terms of interest in the daily work of the counselors working in Iraq and staff. This includes misunderstanding between the staff and the trainers and the slow delivery of the equipment and send incomplete equipment to Iraq, as well as the inadequacy of places to house Iraqi military personnel on military bases, which are supervised by the United States.
When the training program began, in October of 2014, a few months after the fall of the city of Mosul However, militants Daash, has been allocated $ 1.6 billion to assist and train about 12 Iraqi brigade of the army.
As of June of this year, the United States has spent Of that amount, only 316.8 million dollars to do the training, equipping, according to the report. And it spent the money, in the first place, to train and equip the Iraqi army, while was given part of the amount to the newly Peshmerga forces, local forces problem in northern Iraq after the fall of Mosul.
In the report, four important questions exist about the failures in the security program launched by the Pentagon to train Iraqi army .
During the coaches informed the Americans on the living conditions of the Iraqi army, it turned out to be very bad, because the reason for that is in decent funding from the Iraqi government. In the site Basmajh, one of the brigades stationed leaders note there, that his troops do not have safe drinking water, and residential units in the military base was built rooms to house two or four soldiers, while pushing every 14 soldiers in it.
In the coronary and eye-Assad base, it did not get easy water as well as power outages, specifically al-Assad in the base, and the Iraqi forces are responsible for securing its food. According to the report, these living conditions have contributed to the low morale among Iraqi trainees.
The report notes that the United States and Iraqi officials, they do not have accurate information about the warehouse for military bases that are supposed to be under Iraqi government control contents. This was due to the fact that the Iraqi forces prevented the US Advisory forces access than in those warehouses of equipment.
The report says, too, that of consultants Americans, the international coalition have complained about the lack of military supplies and equipment, if available was quite a bit.
One of the problems touches her report is that Iraqi army lost military stockpiles quickly, and this is why America is not to give its stockpile of the Iraqi army, because they complained that the Iraqi military inventory may leak to the armed groups, so the United States has refused to support Iraq.
The report points out that the American advisers who arrived in Iraq just, were not prior knowledge of which would carry out the task. According to the report, the advisers knew of their training Iraqi soldiers They are here for training not to missions of combat, so they were surprised to prepare to be trained soldiers, as well as the advisers also did not have knowledge of future task and as a result of the training of Iraqi soldiers.
The report wonders about whether advisers Americans may gave a step better or not for the Iraqis?
According to the report, "the Foreign Military Sales program pseudo" the US, the National Security Agency asked to send more military units to the Iraqi side, and ultimately reached the Iraqis incomplete.
For example been sent weapons of type "300 M-16S" to train Iraqi forces, reaching seven rifles of the kind without cleaning equipment, has also been shipping 250 vehicles revealing the mines came from Afghanistan, missing key components and disruption in the apparatus Ala_i_arah.
report these issues attributed to the absence of guarantor formal program of quality, which would supply control US military well to reveal, whether the equipment is working or not?
* from: The Washington Post
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