Mutlaq calls for America to bring back some of its troops to Iraq
Mutlaq calls for America to bring back some of its troops to Iraq
15/01/2014 12:27
In case it is not the extension of security in Anbar province, the violence sweep across Iraq
Baghdad / follow-up obelisk urged Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, on Wednesday, the United States of America to continue to help Iraq effectively, stressing that the agreement between Iraq and the U.S. states to keep the part of the troops in Iraq.
Mutlaq said in a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, and seen by the “obelisk”, “The Anbar province in western Iraq is witnessing violence as well as in some other provinces, so the U.S. military aid to Iraq alone will not do any good.”
The al-Mutlaq said that “sending arms to Iraq is not enough to eradicate terrorism.”
He said that “the demonstrators in Anbar must be given their rights claimants since more than a year, but the only legitimate ones,” criticizing “the Iraqi government to step up military operations in that province.”
The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that “in case it is not the extension of security in Anbar province, the violence sweep across Iraq,” adding that “Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki adopts a policy of marginalization of the year, which will continue with the current situation.”
He called al-Mutlaq of the United States “to help Iraq to get rid of the terrorist groups of al-Qaeda, which showed that he is a real threat to U.S. interests in Syria.”
Mutlaq said he is also on the United States “to complete the work with Iraq, even up to safety is the elimination of all militants to Iraq to become the country safer, as stipulated in the American Convention between Iraq and the United States in 2011 Judge survival of some of the U.S. troops in Iraq to train the Iraqi army,” .
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