Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Iraqi soldiers say they need U.S. troops after 2011

Basmajp (Iraq): Some Iraqi soldiers concerned about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year and say the Iraqi security forces need more training to use modern tanks and aircraft purchased by.

The U.S. military turned to the task of advising and counseling for police forces and the army of Iraq’s 660,000-strong individual, after combat operations ended last August. But the ability of Iraqi forces to repel the insurgency remains strong, remains a cause for concern among many.
It is scheduled to leave Iraq by U.S. forces on December 31 under a security agreement between the two countries eight years after the US-led invasion that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
.” He said an Iraqi soldier Kareem Saleh told Reuters on Monday during training with live ammunition in training camp Basmajp at a distance of 90 km southeast of Baghdad, “Iraqi army Americans need for training because most modern weapons and we need training to use them.”
The officer said Fadhil Abbas, commander of Camp Basmajp he was not engaged in politics because that is entrusted to the government but made clear that Iraqi forces in the need for this training. “They want this training to the people and said it was important for them to stay for training U.S. troops after 2011.
Iraq and bought a set of modern military equipment to strengthen his forces, including armored personnel carriers and patrol boats, tanks, M1 A1 Abrams and self-propelled howitzers and been in a hurry.
It is expected to receive 99 tanks M1 A1 Abrams of 140 by the end of this month to receive the rest by the end of the year. But some will not hand over heavy weapons only after 2011 and felt some Iraqi officials are concerned that the training received by the departure of U.S. troops will not be enough to run.
The focus of most U.S. troops training the Iraqi army and Iraqi police.
By comparison, the naval and air forces are less developed. And was naval and air forces to a major setback early this year after about Iraq funds were earmarked for the purchase of F-16s to draft a national food rationing system.
Despite the decline in sectarian violence reached its peak in 2006 and 2007, but the gunmen were from the Shiites and Sunnis are still able to carry out lethal attacks.
The bombing of two car bombs driven by suicide bombers that killed five people and wounded 20 others Monday near the western gate of the heavily fortified Green Zone, which is scheduled to host the Iraq Arab League summit next month.
During a visit to Iraq recently called U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the Iraqi government to decide quickly whether they want U.S. troops to stay for a longer period. He says Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said police and military forces in Iraq are ready and there will be no need for U.S. forces after the end of the year.
Showed Iraqi troops in Basmajp Monday its performance review of how the Air Force and Army together.
He said the Iraqi soldier Karim Saleh, who was trained in Basmajp at the hands of U.S. soldiers that U.S. forces have had a significant impact in the development of combat capabilities of the Iraqi army, but stressed the need for more training after 2011 to assist in the modernization of the security forces.
“The Iraqi army without them would remain unchanged and will not evolve .. the Iraqi government must keep the Americans to train our army.”
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