Maliki Addresses The Security Situation and U.S. Troop Withdrawal and The Strategic Framework Agreement ...

December 1, 2011

Maliki: questioning the capabilities of our armed forces has become a familiar approach in some quarters

Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Thursday, questioning the capabilities of the armed forces has become a familiar approach in some quarters, expressing his confidence in the failure of these campaigns also failed her sisters ex. (hmm ... her sisters ex:)

Maliki said while attending a ceremony in Baghdad, marking the "day to fulfill," that "questioned the ability of the armed forces and security services is targeted to weaken confidence in them and prevent them from filling the vacuum that will leave U.S. forces after the withdrawal," noting that "this skepticism has evolved an approach familiar in some quarters Despite the great successes achieved over the past years."

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Maliki said, "We are confident that the failure of this campaign failed as her sisters ex, including the rebuilding of the armed forces," adding that "this campaign was renewed in 2010 to end combat operations for U.S. forces, which some said that this process is nothing more than a military redeployment" .

The Ministry of Interior renewed, in the (November 21, 2011), reaffirmed their readiness to grab the security file after it confirmed in the (July 17, 2011), that the report confirms its ability to take over after the American withdrawal end of the year, and the General Commander of the Armed Forces Nouri Maliki briefed on these reports as the Minister of the Interior acting and has ongoing meetings with their leaders, while indicating no need for the presence of U.S. forces, but may need to exercise only.

The U.S. President Barack Obama, in (21 October 2011), that his country's troops in Iraqi territory would be in the United States during the holidays, while stressing that Washington will support Iraq in all areas, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki via closed-circuit television with him, the need to begin a new phase of strategic relations after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on schedule end of the year 2011.

Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, has withdrawn combat troops from towns and villages and towns of Iraq on June 30 2009.

Iraq has signed and the United States, too, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable for the rule of law, including development program in which the police and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.

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