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Sunday 10/18/2015 0:41
Othello Alajafal / Baghdad news
the progress of the Iraqi security forces backed by troops the popular crowd and the sons of the tribes in the provinces of Anbar and Salah al-Din against al Daash terrorist, should be dealt with global reports from different angles, and this time came through Abrams tanks America. Site (Defense News) says in the report, he followed and translates as "Baghdad News" that "those responsible for the maintenance of Abrams tanks of America in Iraq, they found a Russian defender made in addition to the repertoire of Iranian-made, strapped on tanks, where surprised this addendum officials and incensed." The report adds, "the tank MIA1 one of the 146 tank front line sold by Washington to Baghdad, was transferred from the Green Zone to the Iraqi service center, which the United States supported in Muthanna, which was established as part of the Ministry of Defense and Foreign Military Sales Program (FMS), and once you remove all ammunition, according to procedures by specialists Iraqis, it was noted Iranian markings on the back of the shell casings, where he was Khozanha equipped with a machine gun Rossi 0.50, and ammunition 12.75 mm Iranian. "According to the report, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the director of the Pentagon Joseph Risky to say" hybridization tanks, weapons and materiel Russian The Iranian constitutes a violation of agreements FMS held between Iraq with America .. as the unauthorized use by the popular crowd-tank forces constitutes a breach of another. For his part, the Iraqi Group for Strategic Studies director says confident Hashemi said "Iraq depends on the number of suppliers for various weapons and thus integrate and modify these weapons comes to achieve effectiveness in the war against Daash. " He adds Hashemi said "This is not the first time that searching by Iraqi forces for more power to fight Daash through the integration of Russian weapons systems on US platforms, where missiles piercing systems put armor on American tanks M1 Abrams specifically for use against the car bombs used in attacks by the organization terrorist, where security forces faced in Baiji, 28, a car bomb in just one day, and in the gray was blown 15 cars on another day. "indicates al-Hashemi that" Iraqi forces need to integrate different systems, they also receive weapons from the US, Russian and Iranian and European sources , despite the fact that these amendments may lead to the problem between the United States and Iraq because of the purchase agreements, "noting that" car bombs are a real problem and a large threat in the battle, so the request of the Prime Minister and Defence Minister traveled to Moscow to get this rocket systems that put on the tanks. " The attention of al-Hashemi that "Iraq has a long and experienced history in the field of weapons and hybridization", adding that "military experts Iraqis have benefited from the expertise of some of the more than 5,000 present in the country, an international consultant from many countries, including Russia and the United States, Iran and France." According to the US State Department that "Washington made it clear more than one occasion that the troops support Iraqi security forces exclusively in its war against al Daash, we have received assurances from the Iraqi side that the Iraqi security forces are using US equipment in accordance with the law of the United States and bilateral agreements between the two countries." Member of the Commission on Security and defense parliamentary deputy Alexander and Tut says in an interview for "Baghdad News" that "the Iraqi forces to use all means available to meet the organization Daash terrorist, including modification and hybridization weapons and equipment to win the war." He adds and berries that "the Americans after a long claims opened a center for the maintenance of tanks in Taji, I do not know that he had entered into a service or did not enter, where despite the ferocity of the battle, and the need for Iraqi forces to a smaller launch, suffer from disrupted hundreds of American tanks, and that complexity, we could not fix. "
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