Concerns over Baghdad security push (BBC)

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Friday, 2 February 2007, 19:36 GMT

Concerns over Baghdad security push
By Andrew North
BBC News, Basra

British officers have expressed serious concerns about the commitment
of Iraqi troops they are training for the new US offensive in Baghdad.

Their comments underline the scale of the challenge in making the new
security plan for the capital work and continuing problems building up
the new Iraqi army.

The BBC has learnt that the British military is preparing up to 1,500
Iraqi soldiers for service there - a deeper level of involvement in the
US security push in Baghdad than previously acknowledged.

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Colonel Stephen Kilpatrick told him the same battalion being trained now
was asked to send troops to Baghdad for last year's Operation Together
Forward "and effectively they mutinied".

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6324305.stm

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. They don't seem to get it that the Iraqis aren't particularly interested

in being halliburton's private police force, unlike our own military.