in Iraq: No real international coalition possible? Delegate to Iraqis

[LittleApple81]

This article provides for a haunting read... It sounds like hell over there...
I don't think they care any more which Iraqis they delegate to!

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Convoy ambush as US looks for way out
FOREIGN STAFF

THE US commander in Iraq said yesterday he would consider pulling his forces out of major cities the moment Iraqi security forces were prepared to take control. The comments by Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the 150,000-strong US occupation force, underlined the Pentagon’s urgent search for Iraqi forces to replace US troops.

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Transferring power to an Iraqi force is now firmly at the centre of US strategy in Iraq, particularly as Washington has so far failed to win major troop commitments from international allies.

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Lieut-Gen Sanchez said US military authorities were already looking at areas of Iraq where US troops could hand over front-line control. "We are looking at that right now to see if there are some cities where ... the capacity is already in place and we’d be more than glad to begin to move out of there," he said. Earlier, a US convoy was attacked near the city of Khaldiyah with a remote-controlled bomb, then ambushed with small arms fire.

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Five US tanks, two Bradley fighting vehicles and 40 troops surrounded the neighbourhood from which gunmen opened fire after the roadside bomb exploded, according to a reporter in Khaldiyah. Helicopters hovered above. Soon afterwards, a second convoy was reported to have been attacked, with a Humvee vehicle engulfed in flames. As troops pulled out at nightfall, a crowd in Khaldiyah danced in the streets, firing Kalashnikov assault rifles in the air and carrying a poster of Saddam Hussein in military fatigues.

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http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1037882003