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On: Sun 12/18/2011 9:44
At the disposal of Western sources: Iraqis are incapable of securing the border
will leave American troops behind Iraqi security forces may be able to provide internal security, but is not qualified to defend the country against external threats, in a time of escalating tensions throughout the Middle East, as contributed to the dominance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki and the defense and interior ministries and appointments for the children of his tribe and his supporters in positions of political leadership in the security exacerbate sectarian tensions in the country, according to the report, told The Associated Press.
According to the report: that the Iraqi security forces, including approximately 700 thousand element. It is largely responsible for security in Baghdad and other cities since 2009. More than ten thousands of police and Iraqi army since the founding of the new force, more than double the number of deaths of American military. Will the Iraqi forces in the country, even though he was quieter than a few years ago, he saw the casualties and kidnappings last year, even more than what happened in Afghanistan, according to figures of America.
He said U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said, "do not continue to Iraqi security forces pressure on al Qaeda, the latter can be renewed and their way back worse than it was in the past. "
There is another major concern regarding the removal of the security forces from any interference or pressure from political sectarianism. And is still Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki controls the ministries of interior and defense delayed the disputes between the political blocs to appoint ministers permanent for both ministries, in conditions of security critical.
said retired Lieutenant-General James Dubik, who was in charge of training Iraqi forces in 2007 and 2008, said, "This means that al-Maliki made the decisions of those senior officers, is not regarded as a sound way to work in a fragile democracy. " And threatens the role of al-Maliki to worsen sectarian tensions that nearly tore the country in the dark days of sectarian fighting violent in 2006 and 2007.
wrote analyst Michael Knights an Iraq specialist in a report this summer to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that "the purchase of appointments is common is particularly devastating because puts the corrupt officers at the head of security units. Those commanding officers will commit later theft and fraud to make up for money they had paid for the job. "
Americans refused to grant a businessman accompanied Maliki visa
, a source in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers that the U.S. authorities refused to grant a visa to a businessman close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to accompany the latest in a recent trip to Washington.
The source pointed out that the Prime Minister's Office intervention to discourage the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, its decision is that the staff specialists returned and repeated the decision not to grant the contractor a visa after the interview they conducted with him prior to the travel of the government delegation to Washington. The independent MP, Sheikh Sabah al-Saadi described the contractor in question as "Ahmed Ezz Iraq," referring to Egyptian businessman Ahmed Ezz is close to the former head of the Egyptian regime and faced commercial, financial, and who was arrested after the fall of the regime and is now serving a prison sentence for exercising forms of political and financial corruption.
Tehran says it has arrested a spy trained in Iraq
, Tehran announced yesterday the arrest of "spy" an Iranian national on charges of spying for the United States, indicating that he had received training at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Iranian state television quoted Iran's Intelligence Ministry as saying that "a person who was arrested had training at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, neighboring the country, "he said, adding that he" was intended to move the false information to Iranian intelligence. "
the ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television that "the spy the CIA an Iranian nationality began his mission to receive training on the use of arms, but the officers in the intelligence Iran recognized him, disclosing his activities spyware. "
According to the report of the Ministry of Intelligence, "was supposed to begin the task of the spy base in Bagram in Afghanistan, but the Iranian intelligence helped him to go into Iran and then arrested him later."
The U.S. officials had said last November that Iran has succeeded in exposing the identities of a number of clients the CIA, a confirmation of the information Iran had announced last May for the arrest of 30 people on suspicion of spying for the United States, as directed last Tuesday (December 13, 2011) charges for 15 people of spying for Washington and Israel. The penalty for espionage in Iran up to the death penalty.
Captive U.S. in the 2003 war, a teacher
decided to soldier American Jessica Lynch, which fell prisoner during the war, the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, enter the world of teaching to become a teacher of primary school.
The newspaper "Daily Telegraph" that "Jessica was nine years old at the invasion of Iraq , you will get a certificate of education from the University of West Virginia after he completed training as a teacher at a primary school were studied in the course of her childhood. "
She said, "Jessica, aged now 28, was captured along with 5 soldiers others near the city of Nasiriyah on March 23. 2003 and spent 9 days a captive of war, adding that she still suffered wounds in the leg suffered in Iraq. "
The newspaper quoted Jessica as saying that "walking is difficult, but I at least I can walk and still keep my legs, and I am still alive."
She the newspaper that "the U.S. government published a novel at the time exaggerated include events are enough to convert to a soldier Jessica champion and crowd to the people's support for the war in Iraq, after the rescue of the families."
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