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By: management of the Centre
On: Tue 12/20/2011 0:44
At the time received a step to complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, the great welcome at the popular and official alike,
Not be afraid of those parties fear that the near future beyond that stage.. Iraq is still suffering from political conflict and the apparent absence of trust between its components, and have shown that, while indicating the economic situation to the great difficulties rebound observed in the renovation of many of the basic infrastructure, as well as the prevalence of the phenomenon of corruption in the administrative and financial concern.
U.S. military down his knowledge
The U.S. military officially ended the war in Iraq on Thursday and revealed his knowledge in a ceremony attended by Leon Panetta and U.S. Defense Secretary after nearly nine years of the invasion. At the same time threw the violence in the north light on the ethnic and sectarian tensions that threaten the country in the coming years.
Panetta said during a flag-lowering ceremony at the Baghdad airport, which is still heavily fortified "after shedding the blood of many Iraqis and Americans have become important to establish Iraq that can govern and secure itself a reality."
And the loss of about 4,500 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in a war that began a campaign of "shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad with rockets, bombs, and later led to the bloody sectarian conflict between Shiites and Sunnis.
And revealed U.S. soldiers aware of U.S. forces in Iraq in a brief ceremony in the open air as symbolizing an end to military operation that was the least popular in the United States since the Vietnam War in the sixties and seventies. And pull out another batch of U.S. forces and the strength of 4,000 troops from Iraq by year's end.
And executed by Saddam Hussein in 2006 and the violence has subsided but the withdrawal of U.S. forces leave Iraq, the challenges in front of tens of insurgency and the policy to the fragile economy depends mainly on oil and suffers from blackouts and corruption.
Panetta said in front of soldiers and U.S. embassy officials at the ceremony, "Iraq will face in the coming days, a test of terror and those who would seek to divide .. and a test of economic and social issues." "The challenges will remain in place, but the United States will be present to stand by the Iraqi people." According to Reuters.
In Falluja, the former stronghold of the insurgency, which was led by al Qaeda, which has seen some of the worst battles of the war celebrated the many thousands of Iraqis to withdraw on Wednesday and burned American flags, some flags and pictures of dead relatives.
Demonstrated about 2500 people, mostly Shi'ite population of the northern Diyala province on Thursday for a second day in a row in front of the provincial council in protest against the move by the Salah ad Din province with the Sunni majority to declare autonomy.
Witnesses said police used batons and water cannon to disperse demonstrators who tried to storm the headquarters of the Council. Some protesters climbed on the roof and black Shiite flag green and black.
There are some conflicts on the territory of Diyala, among the Kurdish minority in northern Iraq and the central government led by Shiites in Baghdad. Seen as a long-term conflict over territory and oil and power as the cause of a possible future conflict in Iraq after the departure of U.S. troops.
And will monitor Iraq's neighboring countries closely how Baghdad would face its own problems without U.S. military presence had been acting as the buffer zone at the time threatening to the crisis in neighboring Syria earthquake events in the sectarian and ethnic balance in the region.
Told U.S. President Barack Obama - who promised in his campaign to bring U.S. troops heading home - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Washington will remain a faithful partner after the withdrawal of another U.S. soldier.
In the opinion of the Shiite leadership in Iraq to withdraw a new beginning for the country's sovereignty, but many Iraqis are asking for the direction that will take him to leave the country once the U.S. forces. Some fear the outbreak of further sectarian violence or the return of al Qaeda's emergence in the cities. As a disagreement between the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad over land and oil represents another point of tension.
The violence has subsided compared to the days of sectarian conflict reached its peak and which caused the suicide bombings and death squads in the murder of hundreds of victims per day at a time when the country plunged into a wave of revenge killings between Sunnis and Shiites. In 2006 alone, killed 17800 of civilians and members of the Iraqi army in the violence.
Is seen to Iraqi security forces as generally able to contain the remainder of the rebellion of Muslim groups Sunni and Shi'ite militias, U.S. officials say are backed by Iran.
The security situation remains a source of major concern. The object of the attack now, local government offices and security forces in an attempt to show that the authorities are not able to control.
And the opening of the fall of Saddam the way to take over the majority Shiites, who represent a vital positions after decades of repression under the rule of the Baath Party. Iraq's Sunnis fear marginalization or even to submit to totalitarian rule under the Shiite-led Maliki. Fueled the campaign to suppress the former members of the Baath Party in the recent concerns. Sectarian divisions and make Iraq vulnerable to interference by neighboring countries to gain more influence. Fear the Shiite leadership in Iraq that the crisis in neighboring Syria at the end of the matter to the advent of the leadership of Sunni militant in Damascus, which increases the degradation of Iraq's sectarian tensions.
It was supposed to keep U.S. troops in part of an agreement to train Iraqi armed forces. Washington has asked the survival of Iraq's three thousand troops at least. But talks aimed at granting immunity to U.S. troops from the trial collapsed.
Memories of U.S. abuses, arrests and killings memory stuck a lot of Iraqis and a matter of legal protection from prosecution for highly sensitive to the political leadership of Iraq to the point that put forward in Parliament without suffering from the split.
At the height of the war was about 170 thousand U.S. troops deployed in more than 500 around the base in Iraq. And will remain about 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq only after December 31, attached to the U.S. embassy, near the Tigris River. Civilians and contractors will be the task of training Iraqi forces on the equipment the U.S. military.
The Color Sergeant Beinish a packed his belongings in a U.S. military base after the end of his mission in Iraq, "it was worth it .. I'm sure he was as well. When we came here for the first time the Iraqi people seem happy ... I hope that our vision we are going to leave behind countries say 'we are now better off than we were before'. "
Remarkable achievement
For his part, praised U.S. President Barack Obama, including by the United States of "fighting, death and bleeding and the building" in Iraq, praised the "remarkable achievement" made in Iraq, even though he is one of the opponents of the Iraq war, which he once characterized as "stupid."
Obama's voice rose from the hangar in North Carolina, saying "Welcome to your country," shouted welcome to the beat of the elements of the 82nd Airborne red hats, who are part of the U.S. troops pulled out of this country.
Obama said "We knew this day would come. And we knew this long ago .. there is a wonderful thing to end a war that lasted for so long." He said Obama, who has made it its main objectives to end the conflict, which lasted about nine years ago in March 2003 that "ending the war more difficult than it began."
Against the backdrop of transport aircraft and military vehicles with desert yellow color at the base of Fort Bragg, which has sent 202 soldiers to their deaths in Iraq, Obama did not refer only slightly to the political anger provoked by the war.
He said that the war "was a source of much debate here at home," noting that he was a member of the Senate and many of the soldiers appearing in front of him were still in school when the war began.
Obama said "all that is done by U.S. soldiers in Iraq - all the fighting and death, bleeding, construction, training and partnerships - led us to the moment of this success." The president said that "we leave behind an Iraq a sovereign, independent and self-reliant, with a representative government (for all) elected by its people." He added: "We are building a new partnership between our two countries, and end the war is not a final battle, but the final march towards the homeland." According to AFP.
Obama said that although Iraq is not "perfect" but "that's a fantastic achievement after nearly nine years." Obama pointed to "high cost" of the war launched to oust former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for refusing to hand over weapons of mass destruction that were never found after the invasion of Iraq. "Today we stop to pray for all the families who lost a loved one, because they are all part of the broader American family."
He said that the United States take the lessons from the conflict, which led to deep divisions in American politics and global levels. "The only thing constant was the Tunaitkm and your commitment to carry out your mission, and commitment to each other." "The war in Iraq will soon be a thing of the past, either your service, it belongs to the generations .. I have lived flames of war .. and you have something great in your life." He continued, "you'll find out for you and your home, call takes place, and Khaddemtem cause greater than yourselves, and have helped to establish just and lasting peace with Iraq, and among all peoples."
Mr Obama began his political opposition to the war in Iraq. In late 2002, said he opposes "dumb wars" like the war in Iraq, the Americans promised to bring the soldiers home.
But Obama, a former senator from Illinois, was not against all wars, he had to escalate the war in Afghanistan after he took office. Are still tens of thousands of American soldiers deployed in this country.
In Iraq, U.S. soldiers will leave for another who numbered at its peak to about 170 thousand soldiers, a country within days. But the joy that was expected to be around the end of this critical and costly war, overshadowed by a sense of the American people are tired and U.S. involvement in war is the longest war in Afghanistan.
Obama began several days of preparations for withdrawal from Iraq by receiving Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House Monday, as promised to continue the relations between his country and Iraq.
But fears that Iraq is going, and despite years of training U.S. forces to Iraqi forces, still lacks the ability to defend its borders, and can be influenced by Iran, an enemy of Washington.
The fear of the number of American observers of the return of sectarian violence, and doubt the power of political structures in Iraq, and they feel that Maliki, a Shiite, has established itself in power at the expense of other minorities in Iraq.
Years all the challenges
Also focused to meet Obama today with Nouri al-Maliki on the future relationship between the two countries with the continued challenges that will be on Iraq after the Americans to face himself. Despite the failure advertiser to contract for the U.S. trainers because of Baghdad's refusal to grant them legal immunity, confirms many of the Iraqi politicians that there will be trained, and that the issue of immunity dissolved form of bypass may find its explanation in the United States Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest in the world and the strength of 16 thousand people .
Just weeks before the generals Americans doubt the capacity of the army and security forces. But now they are now considered capable of dealing with internal threats, particularly the "Al Qaeda" and other organizations is recognizing the new system.
While the Iraqi side complains of lack of numbers and preparing to protect the borders and airspace, intelligence estimates now exclude the existence of external threats, and advises the Baghdad government to focus on addressing the internal situation.
In this area will be the year the Iraqi occupation of the first year without all the challenges, and especially the first reconstruction and hormesis economy and improve services. Second, develop a road map for national reconciliation and an end to sectarian tension.
As the rush of the Sunni provinces to the federal activation of the system to shift to regions enjoying independence, threatening the break state and the people. Among the challenges are also solve the issue of the disputed areas with the Kurds, because they are likely to blow up the relationship between central government and the Kurdistan region.
There are many thorny issues left by the Americans without a solution, but the Iranians are expected to become more involved in as long as they are preparing for a greater role in managing the affairs of Iraq. But that's another story.
Maliki urges U.S. companies
For his part, urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the U.S. companies to help rebuild his country devastated by war and facing a new challenge with the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year.
Maliki said in a speech in the Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. that Iraq is committed to developing the private sector as far as his commitment to defeat terrorism. He added that companies and business leaders who will be in the forefront of this stage, not the generals.
Maliki said that Iraq has the opportunity to work with companies from all over the world to rebuild the country after three decades of war. But he added that Iraq is that the U.S. has a "best companies" that can help to diversify its economy away from oil. He was not satisfied with the number of U.S. companies in Iraq and aspires to increase the number.
Delivery of a prisoner of Hezbollah
In a related development across a number of American politicians expressed outrage after the delivery of United States prisoners of Baghdad, is believed to be active in the Lebanese Hezbollah, suspected of involvement in the process of killing five U.S. soldiers in 2007.
It was Ali Musa Daqduq the U.S. military announced his arrest in July 2007 in southern Iraq and handed over to Iraqi forces by the end of the U.S. withdrawal from the country later this month, the last prisoner by the Americans.
He called a number of Republicans to move Daqduq from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S., who promised U.S. President Barack Obama to close. The effects of the news delivered to Iraqi outrage.
The spokesman said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor Friday: "We will continue to discuss and put with the Iraqis," explaining that "the transfer of this morning (Friday) to the Iraqi prison." He added, "We take this file seriously, so we sought to obtain assurances he would be tried for his crimes, and we got on these assertions.", He said, Vitor "Our work on this issue at the highest levels of governments the U.S. and Iraqi forces and we continue to discuss the Iraqis about the best way to trial."
It seems that U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the issue of Daqduq with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during their meeting at the White House last week.
And saw four members of the Senate that the handover to the Iraqis Daqduq "sends a negative signal to our allies and our enemies in the region." He said these MPs, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former candidate for the presidential election, John McCain, "The delivery of Ali Musa Daqduq terrorist Hezbollah Lebanese (...) to the Iraqi government, rather than referring it to the U.S. military court to hold him accountable for his crimes, scandal."
They added, "We are very concerned for the idea that Daqduq days will not be held accountable to his involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens and will be released by the Iraqis for political reasons and then will resume fighting against the United States and our friends."
For his part, McCain said that "the real test on Bdkaddoq not whether the United States violated the security pact with Iraq whilst in prison out of the country." He continued that "the real test is whether the United States can exert its influence effectively with the Iraqi government to make sure that Americans accused of killing will be held accountable for his crimes in the U.S. judicial system."
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday the United States studied with Baghdad, "a large number of possibilities in line with U.S. and Iraqi laws to refer (Daqduq) for trial before a military court." He added, "We acted in this way because we believe it's the fastest way to transmit it to the judiciary. We continue our discussions on this issue with the Iraqis," although "he was taken this morning in an Iraqi prison."
He said a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity told AFP that "the Iraqi government rejected any talk of deportation to Guantanamo." The United States asserts that Daqduq militant Lebanese Shiite party and arrived in Iraq to train the rebels with the assistance Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
During an operation in January 2007 in Karbala south of Baghdad, gunmen killed an American soldier and kidnapped four others, killing them at a later time, in the process of organization attributed to the U.S. Army Corps of Jerusalem.
Following an agreement signed in 2008 between Washington and Baghdad to end the U.S. presence in Iraq, was considered Daqduq detained by the Iraqi government, but U.S. troops took over guard duties.
The transfer of the Americans to Daqduq with them will be a big legal problem on the one hand, weaken the new relations that Washington wants to establish with the Iraqis. Carney said that the United States received from the Iraqis, "guarantees that he will pursue his crimes."
Iraq admits trying to kill U.S. soldiers
To the Justice Department said the U.S. that an Iraqi living in the United States pleaded guilty after being accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and help al Qaeda militants there and train them on how to make bombs at home.
He acknowledged the promise of Ramadan Alwan pleaded guilty in federal court in Kentucky. The case has sparked harsh criticism from Republican members of Congress demanded the trial of suspected terrorists before military courts in the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama these demands and said the federal courts have jurisdiction also to deal with these issues are major terror.
Said Lisa Monaco, head of National Security in the Ministry of Justice said in a statement "showing the successful investigation and the arrest of Mr. Alwan and questioned the effectiveness of the intelligence services and law enforcement come to represent these terrorists to justice."
Alwan, accused of participating in attacks on the homemade bombs by U.S. forces in the period between 2003 to 2006 and reached his involvement in these incidents after Aki_guet U.S. fingerprints on the bomb did not explode.
The FBI began the investigation of his command in September 2009 and nearly a year after a secret agent hired talked to him about his activities in Iraq and included the use of improvised bombs and sniper rifles to target U.S. forces.
He also sent him and another Iraqi is Muhannad Sheriff Hammadi charged with attempting to provide support and weapons to the militant al-Qaeda in Iraq through a trap installed by U.S. authorities. Hammadi and the payment of not guilty to the charges.
Income, Iraqi and United States in 2009 after having obtained the right of political asylum and arrested in May in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Alwan, faces jail for not less than 25 years and up to life in prison under a deal with prosecutors in which he acknowledges is scheduled guilty verdict against him on the third of April.
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By: management of the Centre
On: Tue 12/20/2011 0:44
At the time received a step to complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, the great welcome at the popular and official alike,
Not be afraid of those parties fear that the near future beyond that stage.. Iraq is still suffering from political conflict and the apparent absence of trust between its components, and have shown that, while indicating the economic situation to the great difficulties rebound observed in the renovation of many of the basic infrastructure, as well as the prevalence of the phenomenon of corruption in the administrative and financial concern.
U.S. military down his knowledge
The U.S. military officially ended the war in Iraq on Thursday and revealed his knowledge in a ceremony attended by Leon Panetta and U.S. Defense Secretary after nearly nine years of the invasion. At the same time threw the violence in the north light on the ethnic and sectarian tensions that threaten the country in the coming years.
Panetta said during a flag-lowering ceremony at the Baghdad airport, which is still heavily fortified "after shedding the blood of many Iraqis and Americans have become important to establish Iraq that can govern and secure itself a reality."
And the loss of about 4,500 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in a war that began a campaign of "shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad with rockets, bombs, and later led to the bloody sectarian conflict between Shiites and Sunnis.
And revealed U.S. soldiers aware of U.S. forces in Iraq in a brief ceremony in the open air as symbolizing an end to military operation that was the least popular in the United States since the Vietnam War in the sixties and seventies. And pull out another batch of U.S. forces and the strength of 4,000 troops from Iraq by year's end.
And executed by Saddam Hussein in 2006 and the violence has subsided but the withdrawal of U.S. forces leave Iraq, the challenges in front of tens of insurgency and the policy to the fragile economy depends mainly on oil and suffers from blackouts and corruption.
Panetta said in front of soldiers and U.S. embassy officials at the ceremony, "Iraq will face in the coming days, a test of terror and those who would seek to divide .. and a test of economic and social issues." "The challenges will remain in place, but the United States will be present to stand by the Iraqi people." According to Reuters.
In Falluja, the former stronghold of the insurgency, which was led by al Qaeda, which has seen some of the worst battles of the war celebrated the many thousands of Iraqis to withdraw on Wednesday and burned American flags, some flags and pictures of dead relatives.
Demonstrated about 2500 people, mostly Shi'ite population of the northern Diyala province on Thursday for a second day in a row in front of the provincial council in protest against the move by the Salah ad Din province with the Sunni majority to declare autonomy.
Witnesses said police used batons and water cannon to disperse demonstrators who tried to storm the headquarters of the Council. Some protesters climbed on the roof and black Shiite flag green and black.
There are some conflicts on the territory of Diyala, among the Kurdish minority in northern Iraq and the central government led by Shiites in Baghdad. Seen as a long-term conflict over territory and oil and power as the cause of a possible future conflict in Iraq after the departure of U.S. troops.
And will monitor Iraq's neighboring countries closely how Baghdad would face its own problems without U.S. military presence had been acting as the buffer zone at the time threatening to the crisis in neighboring Syria earthquake events in the sectarian and ethnic balance in the region.
Told U.S. President Barack Obama - who promised in his campaign to bring U.S. troops heading home - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Washington will remain a faithful partner after the withdrawal of another U.S. soldier.
In the opinion of the Shiite leadership in Iraq to withdraw a new beginning for the country's sovereignty, but many Iraqis are asking for the direction that will take him to leave the country once the U.S. forces. Some fear the outbreak of further sectarian violence or the return of al Qaeda's emergence in the cities. As a disagreement between the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad over land and oil represents another point of tension.
The violence has subsided compared to the days of sectarian conflict reached its peak and which caused the suicide bombings and death squads in the murder of hundreds of victims per day at a time when the country plunged into a wave of revenge killings between Sunnis and Shiites. In 2006 alone, killed 17800 of civilians and members of the Iraqi army in the violence.
Is seen to Iraqi security forces as generally able to contain the remainder of the rebellion of Muslim groups Sunni and Shi'ite militias, U.S. officials say are backed by Iran.
The security situation remains a source of major concern. The object of the attack now, local government offices and security forces in an attempt to show that the authorities are not able to control.
And the opening of the fall of Saddam the way to take over the majority Shiites, who represent a vital positions after decades of repression under the rule of the Baath Party. Iraq's Sunnis fear marginalization or even to submit to totalitarian rule under the Shiite-led Maliki. Fueled the campaign to suppress the former members of the Baath Party in the recent concerns. Sectarian divisions and make Iraq vulnerable to interference by neighboring countries to gain more influence. Fear the Shiite leadership in Iraq that the crisis in neighboring Syria at the end of the matter to the advent of the leadership of Sunni militant in Damascus, which increases the degradation of Iraq's sectarian tensions.
It was supposed to keep U.S. troops in part of an agreement to train Iraqi armed forces. Washington has asked the survival of Iraq's three thousand troops at least. But talks aimed at granting immunity to U.S. troops from the trial collapsed.
Memories of U.S. abuses, arrests and killings memory stuck a lot of Iraqis and a matter of legal protection from prosecution for highly sensitive to the political leadership of Iraq to the point that put forward in Parliament without suffering from the split.
At the height of the war was about 170 thousand U.S. troops deployed in more than 500 around the base in Iraq. And will remain about 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq only after December 31, attached to the U.S. embassy, near the Tigris River. Civilians and contractors will be the task of training Iraqi forces on the equipment the U.S. military.
The Color Sergeant Beinish a packed his belongings in a U.S. military base after the end of his mission in Iraq, "it was worth it .. I'm sure he was as well. When we came here for the first time the Iraqi people seem happy ... I hope that our vision we are going to leave behind countries say 'we are now better off than we were before'. "
Remarkable achievement
For his part, praised U.S. President Barack Obama, including by the United States of "fighting, death and bleeding and the building" in Iraq, praised the "remarkable achievement" made in Iraq, even though he is one of the opponents of the Iraq war, which he once characterized as "stupid."
Obama's voice rose from the hangar in North Carolina, saying "Welcome to your country," shouted welcome to the beat of the elements of the 82nd Airborne red hats, who are part of the U.S. troops pulled out of this country.
Obama said "We knew this day would come. And we knew this long ago .. there is a wonderful thing to end a war that lasted for so long." He said Obama, who has made it its main objectives to end the conflict, which lasted about nine years ago in March 2003 that "ending the war more difficult than it began."
Against the backdrop of transport aircraft and military vehicles with desert yellow color at the base of Fort Bragg, which has sent 202 soldiers to their deaths in Iraq, Obama did not refer only slightly to the political anger provoked by the war.
He said that the war "was a source of much debate here at home," noting that he was a member of the Senate and many of the soldiers appearing in front of him were still in school when the war began.
Obama said "all that is done by U.S. soldiers in Iraq - all the fighting and death, bleeding, construction, training and partnerships - led us to the moment of this success." The president said that "we leave behind an Iraq a sovereign, independent and self-reliant, with a representative government (for all) elected by its people." He added: "We are building a new partnership between our two countries, and end the war is not a final battle, but the final march towards the homeland." According to AFP.
Obama said that although Iraq is not "perfect" but "that's a fantastic achievement after nearly nine years." Obama pointed to "high cost" of the war launched to oust former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for refusing to hand over weapons of mass destruction that were never found after the invasion of Iraq. "Today we stop to pray for all the families who lost a loved one, because they are all part of the broader American family."
He said that the United States take the lessons from the conflict, which led to deep divisions in American politics and global levels. "The only thing constant was the Tunaitkm and your commitment to carry out your mission, and commitment to each other." "The war in Iraq will soon be a thing of the past, either your service, it belongs to the generations .. I have lived flames of war .. and you have something great in your life." He continued, "you'll find out for you and your home, call takes place, and Khaddemtem cause greater than yourselves, and have helped to establish just and lasting peace with Iraq, and among all peoples."
Mr Obama began his political opposition to the war in Iraq. In late 2002, said he opposes "dumb wars" like the war in Iraq, the Americans promised to bring the soldiers home.
But Obama, a former senator from Illinois, was not against all wars, he had to escalate the war in Afghanistan after he took office. Are still tens of thousands of American soldiers deployed in this country.
In Iraq, U.S. soldiers will leave for another who numbered at its peak to about 170 thousand soldiers, a country within days. But the joy that was expected to be around the end of this critical and costly war, overshadowed by a sense of the American people are tired and U.S. involvement in war is the longest war in Afghanistan.
Obama began several days of preparations for withdrawal from Iraq by receiving Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House Monday, as promised to continue the relations between his country and Iraq.
But fears that Iraq is going, and despite years of training U.S. forces to Iraqi forces, still lacks the ability to defend its borders, and can be influenced by Iran, an enemy of Washington.
The fear of the number of American observers of the return of sectarian violence, and doubt the power of political structures in Iraq, and they feel that Maliki, a Shiite, has established itself in power at the expense of other minorities in Iraq.
Years all the challenges
Also focused to meet Obama today with Nouri al-Maliki on the future relationship between the two countries with the continued challenges that will be on Iraq after the Americans to face himself. Despite the failure advertiser to contract for the U.S. trainers because of Baghdad's refusal to grant them legal immunity, confirms many of the Iraqi politicians that there will be trained, and that the issue of immunity dissolved form of bypass may find its explanation in the United States Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest in the world and the strength of 16 thousand people .
Just weeks before the generals Americans doubt the capacity of the army and security forces. But now they are now considered capable of dealing with internal threats, particularly the "Al Qaeda" and other organizations is recognizing the new system.
While the Iraqi side complains of lack of numbers and preparing to protect the borders and airspace, intelligence estimates now exclude the existence of external threats, and advises the Baghdad government to focus on addressing the internal situation.
In this area will be the year the Iraqi occupation of the first year without all the challenges, and especially the first reconstruction and hormesis economy and improve services. Second, develop a road map for national reconciliation and an end to sectarian tension.
As the rush of the Sunni provinces to the federal activation of the system to shift to regions enjoying independence, threatening the break state and the people. Among the challenges are also solve the issue of the disputed areas with the Kurds, because they are likely to blow up the relationship between central government and the Kurdistan region.
There are many thorny issues left by the Americans without a solution, but the Iranians are expected to become more involved in as long as they are preparing for a greater role in managing the affairs of Iraq. But that's another story.
Maliki urges U.S. companies
For his part, urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the U.S. companies to help rebuild his country devastated by war and facing a new challenge with the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year.
Maliki said in a speech in the Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. that Iraq is committed to developing the private sector as far as his commitment to defeat terrorism. He added that companies and business leaders who will be in the forefront of this stage, not the generals.
Maliki said that Iraq has the opportunity to work with companies from all over the world to rebuild the country after three decades of war. But he added that Iraq is that the U.S. has a "best companies" that can help to diversify its economy away from oil. He was not satisfied with the number of U.S. companies in Iraq and aspires to increase the number.
Delivery of a prisoner of Hezbollah
In a related development across a number of American politicians expressed outrage after the delivery of United States prisoners of Baghdad, is believed to be active in the Lebanese Hezbollah, suspected of involvement in the process of killing five U.S. soldiers in 2007.
It was Ali Musa Daqduq the U.S. military announced his arrest in July 2007 in southern Iraq and handed over to Iraqi forces by the end of the U.S. withdrawal from the country later this month, the last prisoner by the Americans.
He called a number of Republicans to move Daqduq from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S., who promised U.S. President Barack Obama to close. The effects of the news delivered to Iraqi outrage.
The spokesman said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor Friday: "We will continue to discuss and put with the Iraqis," explaining that "the transfer of this morning (Friday) to the Iraqi prison." He added, "We take this file seriously, so we sought to obtain assurances he would be tried for his crimes, and we got on these assertions.", He said, Vitor "Our work on this issue at the highest levels of governments the U.S. and Iraqi forces and we continue to discuss the Iraqis about the best way to trial."
It seems that U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the issue of Daqduq with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during their meeting at the White House last week.
And saw four members of the Senate that the handover to the Iraqis Daqduq "sends a negative signal to our allies and our enemies in the region." He said these MPs, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former candidate for the presidential election, John McCain, "The delivery of Ali Musa Daqduq terrorist Hezbollah Lebanese (...) to the Iraqi government, rather than referring it to the U.S. military court to hold him accountable for his crimes, scandal."
They added, "We are very concerned for the idea that Daqduq days will not be held accountable to his involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens and will be released by the Iraqis for political reasons and then will resume fighting against the United States and our friends."
For his part, McCain said that "the real test on Bdkaddoq not whether the United States violated the security pact with Iraq whilst in prison out of the country." He continued that "the real test is whether the United States can exert its influence effectively with the Iraqi government to make sure that Americans accused of killing will be held accountable for his crimes in the U.S. judicial system."
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday the United States studied with Baghdad, "a large number of possibilities in line with U.S. and Iraqi laws to refer (Daqduq) for trial before a military court." He added, "We acted in this way because we believe it's the fastest way to transmit it to the judiciary. We continue our discussions on this issue with the Iraqis," although "he was taken this morning in an Iraqi prison."
He said a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity told AFP that "the Iraqi government rejected any talk of deportation to Guantanamo." The United States asserts that Daqduq militant Lebanese Shiite party and arrived in Iraq to train the rebels with the assistance Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
During an operation in January 2007 in Karbala south of Baghdad, gunmen killed an American soldier and kidnapped four others, killing them at a later time, in the process of organization attributed to the U.S. Army Corps of Jerusalem.
Following an agreement signed in 2008 between Washington and Baghdad to end the U.S. presence in Iraq, was considered Daqduq detained by the Iraqi government, but U.S. troops took over guard duties.
The transfer of the Americans to Daqduq with them will be a big legal problem on the one hand, weaken the new relations that Washington wants to establish with the Iraqis. Carney said that the United States received from the Iraqis, "guarantees that he will pursue his crimes."
Iraq admits trying to kill U.S. soldiers
To the Justice Department said the U.S. that an Iraqi living in the United States pleaded guilty after being accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and help al Qaeda militants there and train them on how to make bombs at home.
He acknowledged the promise of Ramadan Alwan pleaded guilty in federal court in Kentucky. The case has sparked harsh criticism from Republican members of Congress demanded the trial of suspected terrorists before military courts in the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama these demands and said the federal courts have jurisdiction also to deal with these issues are major terror.
Said Lisa Monaco, head of National Security in the Ministry of Justice said in a statement "showing the successful investigation and the arrest of Mr. Alwan and questioned the effectiveness of the intelligence services and law enforcement come to represent these terrorists to justice."
Alwan, accused of participating in attacks on the homemade bombs by U.S. forces in the period between 2003 to 2006 and reached his involvement in these incidents after Aki_guet U.S. fingerprints on the bomb did not explode.
The FBI began the investigation of his command in September 2009 and nearly a year after a secret agent hired talked to him about his activities in Iraq and included the use of improvised bombs and sniper rifles to target U.S. forces.
He also sent him and another Iraqi is Muhannad Sheriff Hammadi charged with attempting to provide support and weapons to the militant al-Qaeda in Iraq through a trap installed by U.S. authorities. Hammadi and the payment of not guilty to the charges.
Income, Iraqi and United States in 2009 after having obtained the right of political asylum and arrested in May in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Alwan, faces jail for not less than 25 years and up to life in prison under a deal with prosecutors in which he acknowledges is scheduled guilty verdict against him on the third of April.
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