Iraq waits for US arms worth $ 12 billion, paid for in cash since 2005
Iraq waits for US arms worth $ 12 billion, paid for in cash since 2005
Sunday July 12, 2015 – 12:09
Revealed parliamentary committees, on Saturday, that the size of the arms deals concluded by Iraq with the United States more than $ 12 billion since 2005, while showed that the Iraqi government cash price paid hundreds of deals with the Fund the fms, confirmed that Iraq is unable to recover his money. The committee Parliamentary Security confirmed (range), in (June 24, 2015), that Washington has not fulfilled only 10% of the size of the military deals signed with Baghdad, noting that Iraq has to pay for more of these contracts. and entered the US Foreign towards (476) arming with the government in an effort to strengthen the US military cooperation with Iraq, where valued at $ 12.3 billion deal. One of the main armament contracts signed between Baghdad and Washington are deal Abrams M1A1 tanks and Hellfire missiles, aircraft and military transport feed -130. Iraq also signed a deal to buy 24 aircraft Bejkravc training worth $ 790 million. There were the government of Nouri al-Maliki with the United States to buy 36 F-16 deal up one price, including $ 65 million and tanks Abrams M1A1 and armored Humvees. The Chairman of the Committee on Security and Defence parliamentary of quitting in an interview to the newspaper term that “our committee has a detailed overview of all contracts entered into by the Ministry of Defence with all countries for the purpose of our troops equipped with weapons, equipment and ammunition, we have evaluated and know their validity.” He said Zamili “read the file (fms) located in the Department of Defense an acronym Fund American sales of the Iraqi army since 2003 and to the present time “, stressing that” this file is suffering from foot-dragging and delays for non-US side’s commitment to the deadlines for the processing of Iraq vehicles, equipment and other types of weapons. ” He said head of the security committee of parliamentary “All these deals are concluded with the American side and the delay in the processing described in the House of Representatives, during the meetings and official books “, adding that” military sales file the Iraqi government cost more than $ 11 billion. ” Foreign Military Sales program is part of a strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq agreement, which provides that “promote and support Iraq’s security capabilities to protect its sovereignty.” revealed for security and defense committee parliamentary, last June, that Iraq spent, during 8 years, more than $ 145 billion on security institutions and combat terrorist organizations. But admitted that there is no vision for these expenses, which she described “the massive and large” and between Zamili that “these amounts are very large compared with the possibilities available to us, which is supposed after these customizations to be the first country in the world in terms of preparing and number,” noting that “Iraq now backward at the level of armament and needs to be sophisticated weapons. ” He stressed MP for the Liberal bloc that “the United States of American has not adhered to with the Iraqi government in accordance with these contracts Bttaghizna weapons that we need in the battles waged by our troops against terrorism,” adding that “processing mechanism wrong because it did not based on the priority valves that lagged devise its own operations. ” For his part, MP Haitham al-Jubouri, a member of the Finance Committee, said that “decades of fms allocated to them and the money file in the past budgets is a fund was paying him money through dfi Fund (Iraq Reconstruction Fund) from in order that Iraq is ready to pay the money directly to the US government when what has Bttaghizna weapons. ” The Fund (the reconstruction of Iraq) was stopped work after a UN resolution in June 2013 to drive Iraq from the provisions of Chapter VII of the United Nations, which imposed after the Charter Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. and between al-Jubouri, in an interview with the (long-Presse), that “money fms Fund reached more than $ 12 billion without Iraq received any military piece of the United States,” adding that “the money deposited far the US Government It is used in private investments. ” Since 2011 accelerated the pace of Iraq’s purchase of American weapons, it has received about 100 Abrams tanks, as well as hundreds of armored transport wheels (Humvee, Hummer). And focus US activity after 2013 to provide Iraq with military equipment and guided missiles with the escalation of risk Daash such as the fall of Mosul last year. He said al-Jubouri that “fighter the F16, which delayed the Washington delivered to Iraq, are among fms decades,” adding that “the Committee Parliamentary Finance called for the cancellation of this contract and stopped in the year 2015 and will remain only frozen the money in this fund. ” He continued member of the Finance Committee “will not say goodbye to new money in fms Fund, during the current year and beyond the other, because the American side did not abide by his promises with the Iraqi side,” pointing out that “the amounts deposited in the Fund is not able Iraqi government retrieved because it has become contracts signed.” For her part, member of the Finance Committee, MP Magda Tamimi, that “the Iraqi government turned the money from 2005 to last year as part of military sales fms file The estimated 11.8 billion dollars. ” She Tamimi, in an interview to the newspaper term, that “the BSA does not know this money was not allowed to audited not subject to the introduction of Almkhozna.” confirmed member of the Finance Committee that “This contract includes the Iraqi army is equipped with weapons and American equipment and ammunition and training within it. ”
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