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U.S. military: Iraqi tribes to protect withdrawal routes
2011-12-03بغداد – الصباح الجديد 3/12/2011 BAGHDAD - A new morning
Preoccupied by American soldiers at a base in Basra, southern Iraq to secure the pivotal traversed by processions denouncing the military to Kuwait, especially through the payment of money to tribal leaders to help protect against this route. According to Agence France-Presse.
Says Colonel Douglas Cressman at the base of Basra for emergency operations that "our duty is focused on keeping the security of the highway of today our brothers and sisters" of American soldiers during the orientation towards the Kuwaiti border.
He says Cressman, who oversees the work of American soldiers in the four southern Iraqi provinces, "Today we have a relationship with more than twenty tribal leader oversees tribes on the highway, so we pay them money in exchange to keep this road clean."
U.S. President Barack Obama announced on October 21 that U.S. forces will withdraw completely from Iraq by the end of 2011 under a security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington.
And left in the past few months tens of thousands of American soldiers, most of them and headed toward Kuwait, with less than less of 13800 troops stationed in seven military bases around Iraq after the total, about 500 in the past.
According to an official source in the province of Diwaniyah, the U.S. troops walk out of Iraq in the Highway which is called the i 6, and starts from the entrance to the intersection of Afak.
The source adds in a statement to AFP that "the length of the highway between Nasiriya and Diwaniya, 145 km of the road and then linked to the Basra Batha with a length of 240 km and is in the center of the city of Basra."
He points out that "the road consists of two sides of the passage back and forth and the width of each side 15 meters, while the width of the carrot average ten meters, and the shoulder side of the road a width of three meters, with a bridge for vehicles along the way."
It is feared that the Americans are targeting Moakphm withdrawing from Iraqi cities scattered along this road, which is spread on the sides of gardens and barren land and a limited number of villages, especially through the feet of armed militias to plant the bombs.
Cressman says, "When the explosion of an improvised explosive device is located, for example, contact with Sheikh responsible for the incident." He continues, "we ask what happened to him and say: This is your responsibility, why not pay you if you do your homework?".
And armed militias intensified their operations against the last summer of American soldiers in Baghdad and the southern regions where it killed 23 soldiers in June made him an American record month in which it suffered the heaviest losses of U.S. forces three years ago.
And tells Abu Mohammed al-Jubouri one Jabour clan elders that "with the end of 2007, groups were formed to protect the roads from the tribes and in agreement with the U.S. forces."
He points out that "have been allocated monthly salaries covers the expenses of each one kilometer has been appointed as protection groups numbering not less than ten people per kilometer."
According to Jubouri, the "monthly salaries ranging between $ 500 and $ 700 for a single element was driven by the Americans."
But Jubouri confirms that in the mid-2008, conversion kits to protect the highways from the sons of the tribes to "National Reconciliation Commission and became security committees in the councils of the provinces and districts, counties supervise their work and receive their instructions directly from the Iraqi army and national police."
And stresses that "this severed relationship groups to protect roads, tribal forces, the U.S. completely, although they are still engaged in their work in protecting and maintaining roads on the passing of the gangs of theft and robbery and receiving salaries from the Ministry of National Reconciliation."
In addition to securing the highway, working American soldiers stationed at the base of Basra, numbering about 500, to hand over parts of it to the Iraqi army, and other parts to the U.S. State Department that its officers will work, as Cressman in the "largest American consulate in the world", and the United Nations.
Cressman says that "the extradition process in this rule is more complex than those that occurred and are occurring in other rules, because we recognize this rule to a group of different entities."
He adds, "We will provide other processions exit, then follow it to the outside (Kuwait), and then close the door behind us."
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2011-12-03بغداد – الصباح الجديد 3/12/2011 BAGHDAD - A new morning
Preoccupied by American soldiers at a base in Basra, southern Iraq to secure the pivotal traversed by processions denouncing the military to Kuwait, especially through the payment of money to tribal leaders to help protect against this route. According to Agence France-Presse.
Says Colonel Douglas Cressman at the base of Basra for emergency operations that "our duty is focused on keeping the security of the highway of today our brothers and sisters" of American soldiers during the orientation towards the Kuwaiti border.
He says Cressman, who oversees the work of American soldiers in the four southern Iraqi provinces, "Today we have a relationship with more than twenty tribal leader oversees tribes on the highway, so we pay them money in exchange to keep this road clean."
U.S. President Barack Obama announced on October 21 that U.S. forces will withdraw completely from Iraq by the end of 2011 under a security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington.
And left in the past few months tens of thousands of American soldiers, most of them and headed toward Kuwait, with less than less of 13800 troops stationed in seven military bases around Iraq after the total, about 500 in the past.
According to an official source in the province of Diwaniyah, the U.S. troops walk out of Iraq in the Highway which is called the i 6, and starts from the entrance to the intersection of Afak.
The source adds in a statement to AFP that "the length of the highway between Nasiriya and Diwaniya, 145 km of the road and then linked to the Basra Batha with a length of 240 km and is in the center of the city of Basra."
He points out that "the road consists of two sides of the passage back and forth and the width of each side 15 meters, while the width of the carrot average ten meters, and the shoulder side of the road a width of three meters, with a bridge for vehicles along the way."
It is feared that the Americans are targeting Moakphm withdrawing from Iraqi cities scattered along this road, which is spread on the sides of gardens and barren land and a limited number of villages, especially through the feet of armed militias to plant the bombs.
Cressman says, "When the explosion of an improvised explosive device is located, for example, contact with Sheikh responsible for the incident." He continues, "we ask what happened to him and say: This is your responsibility, why not pay you if you do your homework?".
And armed militias intensified their operations against the last summer of American soldiers in Baghdad and the southern regions where it killed 23 soldiers in June made him an American record month in which it suffered the heaviest losses of U.S. forces three years ago.
And tells Abu Mohammed al-Jubouri one Jabour clan elders that "with the end of 2007, groups were formed to protect the roads from the tribes and in agreement with the U.S. forces."
He points out that "have been allocated monthly salaries covers the expenses of each one kilometer has been appointed as protection groups numbering not less than ten people per kilometer."
According to Jubouri, the "monthly salaries ranging between $ 500 and $ 700 for a single element was driven by the Americans."
But Jubouri confirms that in the mid-2008, conversion kits to protect the highways from the sons of the tribes to "National Reconciliation Commission and became security committees in the councils of the provinces and districts, counties supervise their work and receive their instructions directly from the Iraqi army and national police."
And stresses that "this severed relationship groups to protect roads, tribal forces, the U.S. completely, although they are still engaged in their work in protecting and maintaining roads on the passing of the gangs of theft and robbery and receiving salaries from the Ministry of National Reconciliation."
In addition to securing the highway, working American soldiers stationed at the base of Basra, numbering about 500, to hand over parts of it to the Iraqi army, and other parts to the U.S. State Department that its officers will work, as Cressman in the "largest American consulate in the world", and the United Nations.
Cressman says that "the extradition process in this rule is more complex than those that occurred and are occurring in other rules, because we recognize this rule to a group of different entities."
He adds, "We will provide other processions exit, then follow it to the outside (Kuwait), and then close the door behind us."
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