Security and defense committee announces the arrival of Apache helicopters and F16 next month in June
For the security and defense committee announces the arrival of Apache helicopters and F16 next month in June
27/01/2014 10:55
Follow-up – public opinion – A member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary Abbas al-Bayati, that Baghdad will receive the first meal of the U.S. F-16 aircraft and helicopters “Apache” will arrive next month.
Bayati said in a press statement on Monday, said that “Iraq signed with the United States to buy two squadrons of F-16 and will receive the first meal of after June which is about 4 sophisticated aircraft with all its equipment and materiel.”
Al-Bayati said that “the aim of this aircraft is to develop the capacity of the army to enable it to protect airspace and borders, and through which the armed forces will be able to protect the country’s sovereignty from intrusions and control of our skies that you enter dozens of commercial aircraft and transport aircraft.”
He stressed that “the U.S. Congress to raise the reservation for supplying Iraq with Apache aircraft which will arrive next month, because we need to strengthen the role of our security services in the fight against terrorism.”
He noted that “the American approach is built on the basis of the feeling that the threat from al Daash, and terrorist organizations is threatening all countries in the region, not only Iraq.”
According to al-Bayati, the “wave of terror began Hraradtha volatilize, and Establish a new cells, especially in countries that live on a Hot Tin.”
And refused to “reservation shown by some Iraqi factions arming the army”, describing Ian as “unjustified, because this is purely defensive weapon is not possible to use it at home.”
He asked for “the place where the use of such a weapon to settle political disputes,” pointing out that “the country’s political problems resolved within Parliament or behind the scenes.”
He accused al-Bayati, “some politicians that they do not want to arm the army for reasons of a private or political motives,” stressing “the political agreement of all parties on the need for reinforcement because terrorism targeting all the ingredients.”
He stressed that “America does not have any conditions for the delivery of the aircraft or the implementation of other contracts, such as tanks or artillery, long-term, because Iraq buys across Organization (fms), a shopping American weapons to us and we with them decades to 12 billion dollars completed the bulk of them.”
“We are very satisfied with the level of cooperation in the field of American armament that now takes three levels, the first level of intelligence as well as the level of training, as well as arming Iraq to speed up the extradition aircraft Hellfire.” P / h
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