WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is preparing to "embed" additional American military trainers with Iraqi security units to make them more effective in countering the persistent and violent insurgency, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith said Tuesday.
"It is a matter of taking a new look, of reassessing assumptions," Feith said in an interview in which he described the performance of Iraqi units as mixed. "In a number of cases they have performed well and in other cases less well," Feith said.
With election of a transitional assembly and provincial councils scheduled for Jan. 30, bloody assaults by insurgents have taken a heavy toll of Iraqi National Guardsmen and other Iraqi forces.
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Iraqi forces have been performing better since an Iraqi chain-of-command was established last June, Feith said.
Serious security problems persisted Tuesday as the governor of the Baghdad region, known for cooperating closely with U.S. troops, was assassinated, and five U.S. troops and 10 Iraqi commandos were killed in other assaults.
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