20/10/2011 13:39
Baghdad, October 20 / October (Rn) - The Liberal bloc in the Iraqi Council of Representatives and of the Sadrist movement on Thursday, the Iraqi government to stop negotiations with the U.S. side to keep the trained U.S. military, citing the preclusion need them after the date of the planned withdrawal at the end of the year and replacing them with others from Europe or South Korea or Japan. The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has won this month on the support of the Iraqi political leaders to the survival of a number of U.S. troops as trainers, but without legal immunity claimed by Washington as part of a deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq. but cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who is allied with al-Maliki oppose openly the continued U.S. presence, and threatened to target U.S. trainers, calling them "soldiers of the occupation." said the head of the Liberal MP Bahaa al-Araji, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) "after that read the technical reports and the military has been prepared by experts We found that the Iraqi army does not need to train by the Americans exclusively. " He explained that "the Iraqi army consists of 17 Division, 16 from class infantry and armored division one and most of the armor and weapons of the band from the origins of European or Russian weapons as the U.S. is limited to the transfer mechanisms soldiers (Hummer) I do not think that they need to train. " Maliki has announced a few days ago that he expected to need his country to a number of trained less than proposed by Washington, less than 3 thousand military. Maliki said in an interview with "Reuters" The Americans suggested keep the 3.400 troops in Iraq, saying that Baghdad is not in need of such a number of trainers. Araji said "It seemed clear from the ongoing negotiations with the U.S. side that the latter insists on keeping troops in Iraq under any pretext. He is trying to persuade the Iraqis to grant his soldiers judicial immunity sometimes and other diplomatic. This is absolutely unacceptable. " He continued by saying, "We do not trust the intentions of the United States they want to keep the troops for political purposes related to the protection of its interests in the region, so we see the interest to stop ongoing dialogues in this regard and the replacement of trainers Europeans or South Korea and Japan instead of U.S. forces. " The granting legal immunity for trainers Aqaba the most prominent in that both parties Almtbagesan a formula of understanding the final, but some recently launched granted diplomatic immunity and appear to be the right formula now. After the end of combat operations last year due to departure of the last American forces, and the 44 thousand Iraq troops by year's end under the terms of a bilateral security pact. From: Hossam Ali. Open: Abdullah Sabri
http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/4/268199/
