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U.S.: Iraq has received 90 percent of the tank (Abrams), which contracted to buy
On: Sun 02/19/2012 0:01
BAGHDAD - The Citizen
Confirmed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, that the Government of Iraq handed over her 131 M1A1 Abrams tank type of 140, the Iraqi government had contracted it.
The embassy said in a press statement yesterday that the U.S. arms sales to Iraq, according to the program of the Government of the United States Foreign Military Sales are fully transparent and accountable, contrary to recently published news reports, indicating that the sale of tanks for the army are not exempt from this transparency. The embassy said that the report published by a local newspaper, which quoted a parliamentary source as saying that the tanks that were purchased by the Iraqi army has not been handed over to Iraqi authorities is the story untrue, saying that it was already delivered more than 90 per cent of these tanks, and that the meal is the last of which already exist in Iraq and will be delivered soon. explained the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that the Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq (OSC-I) of the Embassy will complete the procedures for delivery of tanks M1A1 Abrams to Iraq within the next few weeks, noting that the government Iraq had contracted to buy 140 tanks from the United States, all of which have arrived in Iraq was also delivered 131 of them already to the Iraqi army and is now in his possession. and followed the U.S. Embassy that «the tanks, the remaining nine are in Iraq but in the possession of the United States, noting that Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq awaiting the arrival of some components of these tanks and then delivered them to be so complete the purchase contract with the Iraqi army in accordance with the standards of the United States government ». confirmed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that the Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq will soon access these components deliver tanks nine remaining to the Iraqi army, to be expected that in the coming weeks.
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