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11/08/2011
A local official warns of owning tribes to maintain heavy weapons
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah
said the U.S. military yesterday handed over the responsibilities of comprehensive training in Nasiriyah to the Iraqi army, saying that the latter is able to carry out training tasks fully and provide the resources, planning and teaching. The head of the transition team in the Third Brigade of the advice and support the U.S. Army Maj. William Mcglothin in a statement reported on "Alsumaria News": "The U.S. forces handed over the responsibilities of comprehensive training in Nasiriyah to the Iraqi army, which is able to carry out training tasks are complete, and the provision of resources, planning and teaching."
He emphasized that "training received by the angel of Iraq is distinct from the exercises preceding it, as a similar exercise conducted by U.S. forces in the training center is the National Camp Irwin in the California American, "noting that" the Iraqi army has gained high experience after training for the first time to use the machine guns of the "mother 16 "American-made, and how the use of weapons, shooting, mortar and learning to read maps in the field of their need land navigation." The Mcglothin that "the angel of Iraq received training since January of this year, by Major General Iron, who has the necessary funding and resources necessary to support the program and completed training for the Wolf Brigade last February," pointing to "The comprehensive training included teaching Iraqi forces the foundations of martial arts and national security. " The Central Command, the Navy announced that descend on the third of August for the current handover of security responsibilities to the oil port of Basra to the Iraqi naval forces. The United States and Iraq have signed, in 2008, the strategic framework agreement to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from a partnership strategy with Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, and reduce the number of PRTs in the provinces, as well as provide an important sustainable rule of law, including the program development of the police and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund of Iraq relief and reconstruction.
Furthermore, warned by the security committee of the Board of Dhi Qar, Jamil Yusuf Shabib the spread of heavy weapons when most of the families of the province, calling on local government to develop a mechanism for removal of these weapons for fear of falling, however, gangs terrorist attacks.
and called Shabib in a statement carried by the agency "Nina" news yesterday: "follow up the matter by the police of Dhi Qar, and issue an order to confiscate heavy weapons because it was a violation of security threatens the security of the government internally and we fear they occur, however, the terrorist groups." He added: "The tribes maintain fought among them armed conflicts used those heavy weapons. "He did not specify a member of the provincial council types of such weapons, but witnesses said mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets and heavy machine guns, were stolen from the warehouses of the former Iraqi army and fallen to the tribes in quantities of underestimated them.
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