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Washington: Iraq is weak .. And capabilities of air below the level
On: Friday 9/12/2011 6:59
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, although the U.S. military carefully arrange the fast track to exit from Iraq, but a senior U.S. general admitted that Iraq is still weak, especially in the air. Gen. Frank Helmick, the Iraqis know that there is a gap ..
Have a gap in the ability to defend their airspace if someone wanted to enter the atmosphere without being seen by one .. How to deal with that gap? This is due to them.
will be a full withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of this year, and Helmick's comments come as the latest in a series of media statements quoted by the military from Iraq to the Pentagon in conjunction with the withdrawal. As deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, praised the Himlik efforts of U.S. and Iraqi to build local security forces, but pointed to the weakness of several possibilities.
The challenges and threats of external security, and the Iraqis to continue to pressure the Iranian-backed militias and al-Qaeda and other violent extremist organizations .
He said there are still some security holes such as the sovereignty of the Iraqis, allowing them, and their ability to air defense, and protection of oil platforms, and the ability to conduct joint armed to defend the outside, and coordinating the work of infantry, armor and artillery .. Not yet arrived to that capacity.
and the work of U.S. forces over the past eight years, said Himlik If I determine what is the greatest legacy we leave, it would be the concepts of trust, professionalism and team spirit that was instilled in the Iraqi security forces, as well as friendships and relationships we have established with them.
In a related development, said a spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry on Thursday that 7,500 U.S. last remaining troops and withdraw during the next few days.
and ended the U.S. military combat missions in the last year and began to withdraw its troops from Iraq, according to the Convention on the withdrawal of forces agreement signed between Washington and Baghdad in 2008.
While the countdown to the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year escalated armed attacks against members of Iraqi security.
Mohammed al-Askari told the Kurdish news agency, "the rest of the U.S. troops 7,500. They will walk through the next few days."
He is the remaining soldiers from four locations in four military bases. He said the military "expect withdrew permanently from the Iraqi territory before the end of this month."
Military experts say that Iraq still needs U.S. trainers to create an Iraqi security personnel on the use of modern weapons.
and rejects Iraq desperately granting immunity from prosecution for trainers Americans. Iraqi officials have suggested contracting with instructors from other countries.
The U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq a real test for Iraqi forces, which were based on logistics and foreign military for more than eight years.
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