Washington insists on granting immunity for its soldiers and Baghdad are looking for options
U.S. troops in Sadr City - from the archives
07.10.2011
Samira Ali Mandi
After deciding the issue of the extension to the survival of a limited number of U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011 as trainers and experts, began the debate over granting immunity or not these coaches and experts. At a time in which he emphasized the U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta to the existence of any American force will certainly provide immunity for her, the President of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi parliament Hassan Sinead, during the Council meeting Thursday, which discussed the agreement the leaders of political blocs on the survival of a number of troops to train Iraqi forces, he stressed that the agreement by the leaders of the blocks has been focused on not to grant any kind of immunity to any foreign military in Iraq. member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi parliament MP Alexander and Tut ruled to approve the American side on that, but he is expected to be discussing the U.S. position of the exit solution satisfactory to both parties, pointing to Radio Free Iraq that the political blocs have yet to agree on the number of trainers and experts U.S. military personnel. and the news agency Reuters quoted an Iraqi lawmakers as saying they are considering an agreement to expand the training mission undertaken by NATO, including allowing U.S. troops to stay in military trainers after the final withdrawal of the end of this year with giving them some sort of legal protection sought by Washington. The proposed project law presented by the defense and security committee in the Iraqi parliament tried foreign coaches before the courts of their countries in the event of committing certain crimes during the service inside or outside the rules and areas of work agreed to be the Iraqi government and jurisdiction over the foreign coaches, in the event of committing certain crimes outside the installations and locations agreed them to perform their service. MP Adnan al-Sarraj, a coalition of law confirmed the existence of such a proposal as one option to resolve the dilemma of immunity by the United States insists awarded for its soldiers. Sarraj said that Iraq needs to develop and train its security forces, and will need to use trainers from other countries to train his troops. the legal expert Tareq Harb said that the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington give U.S. troops immunity, and will continue this immunity to the end of this year, and sees that the role of trainers, experts and consultants, not combat, and thus there would be no need to give them immunity, such as those awarded to U.S. military personnel, who were carrying out combat. Multi maintaining the number of Mamedod of U.S. troops for training purposes and to help the Iraqi forces, had sparked controversy in political circles and parliamentary elections amid strong opposition of the Sadrist movement. Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Baghdad, Amer Hassan Fayyad believes that the issue of immunity are coming in a circle Bids and political bickering as described. contributed to the View Radio Free Iraq correspondent in Baghdad, Leila Ahmed
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