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08.12.2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Anbar - Wahid Tohme - Dar Al-Hayat took over the Iraqi government yesterday, one of the last 5 bases occupied by U.S. forces. The commander of operations in Anbar, Lt. Gen. Abdul Aziz Mohammed Obeidi, the Iraqi air force took over the site and will deploy its aircraft there, in support of plans to control the border strip extends hundreds of kilometers, while the source indicated in the U.S. forces that rules the remaining four are three in the south of the country and one in Baghdad will be delivered in the coming days. The U.S. military established a «Al Asad Air» in the Baghdadi region, 240 km west of Baghdad, near the border Iraq - Syria in 2005 to monitor and control infiltration and published 20 thousand troops in support of operations in the plateau west of Iraq. The commander of the operations in Anbar, Abdul Aziz al-Obeidi said in a statement to the »life» that «U.S. forces handed over today (yesterday) a lion in the area of al-Baghdadi to our air force in the presence of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army of the operations of the team the first corner Abboud Qanbar and the Group to Ghaidan ground forces commander and the commander of the Air Force» . He »with, we received this camp are U.S. troops evacuated all their positions in Anbar». A statement of the U.S. Army yesterday that »the Marines in the rule six years ago vacated in preparation for a return to the United States», pointing out that »withdrawals and transfers of equipment and weapons began in the last week of October (October) the past ». and the impact of exit of foreign forces from the province with reports of the growing strength of the organization «rule», Obeidi said «not for the Americans an active role in the fight against terrorism and political crime in the province since mid-2008 and was limited its role to provide support to our units until mid-2009, when the transformation of this role to a purely advisory ». The «Check us gain important on the ground and in the air after the receipt of the Air Force to this rule». and declared Americans in the November 22 (November) last in a statement that « Marines »in Al Asad in six years« is now preparing to leave and return to her country, »According to these forces in a statement that» evictions and destruction of needs is useful is the right thing must be done by the Marines before leaving the base «. and what would be provided by this gain support for the operations control the borders with Syria and hunt insurgents in those areas, said al-Obeidi «Now we will move more freely than ever before and this site is strategic and will provide us air cover soon benefit from it in the survey, monitoring and surveillance, there are plans for the stationing of a number of aircraft power immediately in this rule, which enhances our capabilities with a weapon effective ». The Chairman of the Commission on Security and Defence in Parliament MP Hassan Sinead, in comments yesterday that »infiltration did not end cross-border with Syria and Saudi Arabia», stressing decline over the past months compared to previous years. and declared that »there is a tendency for the presence of a number of swarms of modern aircraft that Iraq contracted it and Setslmha in the coming period in this place ». , the official source in the U.S. military said in a statement to the »life» that his troops «still retain four key bases, three of which in the south». The Iraqi government decided to launch celebrations of the withdrawal of foreign troops from another country, which it called «the day to fulfill» starting from the eighteenth of this month.
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