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Integrity of the parliamentary (range): Arming the army did not exceed 60%
On: Tue 01/24/2012 10:09
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revealed that the Integrity Commission, the parliamentary arm the Iraqi army did not exceed sixty percent, while re-confirmed that it was the former defense minister Hazem Shaalan accused a number of corruption cases, including the contract for the aircraft model 1934.
Comments come the Committee after it announced the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, on the allocation of the U.S. government the amount of two billion dollars to equip and train Iraqi forces, noting that Washington will not cut economic support after its withdrawal from Iraq.
The American ambassador, James Jeffrey, in a press statement yesterday, "the U.S. government has allocated billion to equip Iraqi military forces, and one billion dollars last for the processing of prisons and the training of police and judges. "
He added Jeffrey that "Washington will not cut economic support for Iraq after the withdrawal of it."
He said Geoffrey, "The opinion of the congressional delegation who recently visited Iraq does not represent the opinion of the U.S. government" .
The Jeffrey "This will not affect the friendship between the two countries."
It is said that members of Congress have called for Iraq to pay reparations for the U.S. Army for his war on Iraq.
Conversely, a member of the Integrity Committee in the House of Representatives Ammar Al-Shibli said, "The Ministry of Interior and Defense is responsible for exchange, "unlikely that there will be suspicions of corruption in different allocations of" The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, he took the files pertaining to armament contracts himself to the Integrity Commission, "revealing that" the integrity parliamentary commission was set up a fourth of its members to follow up these files. "
confirmed in interview with the (range) yesterday that corruption in the armament contracts at the Ministry of Defence over the internal three times, because first you need more to the weapons and equipment, "explaining," There is a lot of officers were transferred to the judiciary. "
He said the files handed over by al-Maliki to the Commission involving on the period between 2006 - 2010, "There are three general managers fugitives from justice and another sentenced to imprisonment for two years has been discrimination decision is expected to face up to life imprisonment."
predicted Shibli that the issue of armament contracts in the next phase will be more objective during the the coming period. "
and added, "We had met a number of officials in the ministries of interior, defense, and you need the military forces of Iraq arming large equipment in war that were mainly used during the Saddam regime were destroyed in the war to topple Saddam."
and on the proportion of arming security forces said Shibli it did not exceed 60 percent, he said, "We still need more weapons, although we've got helicopters, tanks, arms and weapons."
He pointed out that "the sums T allocated by the United States will go to military intelligence and radar," The aircraft Vtm contracted to pay forward.
ruled out for the Commission integrity, the possibility of exposure decades jets (F-16) to the semi-corruption, and added, "waiting for the arrival of first batch of them during the next March, and it is possible to be exposed to corruption, because the purchase and clear over the internet and the prices are predetermined according to the possibilities of the aircraft," adding that "the was used by the ministry in the Hazem Shaalan buying crude there is no specific mechanism and therefore contracted to buy 5 aircraft Czech Model 1934 participated in the Second World War, but Iraq after the refusal of receipt. "
said Shibli "during this week will come to Baghdad, a representative of the Interpol for the purpose of agreement with him to restore the accused of corruption to Baghdad for trial and who among them Shaalan, although we do not know his place. "
and the decisions skeptical issued by the Federation of the European Parliament on some of the investigative files in Iraq, said al-Shibli, "was settled it was also to make sure that the Confederation is recognized and therefore we are we will get back our contacts Interpol for the return of the criminals. "
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