05/11/2011Plans for a new security after U.S. withdrawal
Baghdad, the U.S. military announced its intention to complete its withdrawal from Iraq by the end of this year, urged the member of the parliamentary Defense and Security to review and evaluate the security plans, and a second deputy said there were plans for a new stage after the withdrawal.
A spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan told a news conference in Baghdad: "The American soldiers would withdraw from Iraq through the Kuwaiti territory," adding that "more than a million military vehicles were returned from Iraq and the remaining 650 000 pieces of military will be returned before the end of the year , "explaining that" five to three thousand truck transporting equipment per week, while the move ownership of some of what is left to the Iraqi side or the State Department. "and said that" the number of U.S. troops currently in Iraq amounts to 34 thousand fighters and 12 military base out of 505 , quoted from the base 493 to the Iraqi side, "stressing" the absence of any new agreement with the Iraqi side in relation to trainers."
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According to Buchanan, the "security situation in Iraq is still complicated, and there is concern that organized crime Kalkhtaf despite the lack of rates, but their causes, especially the material on the rise," adding that "al-Qaeda remains a source of danger, despite the efforts made by the Iraqi forces." The army U.S. on Friday, killing one of his soldiers during his participation in the "mission" in northern Iraq Thursday.
He said in a brief statement, it had opened an investigation into the incident, without revealing the nature of the task, or the name of the deceased.
In the meantime, he invited a member of the security and defense committee in the House of Representatives Ammar Tohme, to re-review and evaluate the security plans and working methods of security, especially with the imminent withdrawal of U.S. forces and the changing challenges beyond.
The news agency quoted the "Nina" for Tohme as saying that "the absence of pressure of tracking and follow-up continued low level of activities of field target cans, terrorism and areas of activity repeated, will provide for terrorism flexibility to move and the ability of the highest in the configuration and planning of the important objectives and quality," stressing the need for effective implementation of sanctions and Conditions issued against the criminals and murderers and terrorists to weaken the incentive to engage in terrorist groups. He called on political forces to "unite against the common enemy positions and to support security forces in the fight against terrorism and its remnants."
In the meantime, said a member of the House of Representatives from a coalition of state law, the Chairman of the Commission on Security and Defence parliamentary Hasan al: The security ministries will adopt a new plan for the post after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as well as that there is an effort intelligence and logistical support, and a change in the military and security services in general, describing preparations in this regard as "active and substantial." He added that the training will be part of the task of the weapons that we have imported them, it is natural to include the purchase of training and maintenance.
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