Washington returns to work in Iraq, security experts and advisers
Washington returns to work in Iraq, security experts and advisers
Published 19/05/2013 09:43 AM
Babinaoz – Agencies: trading circles governmental and parliamentary leaks about the arrival of Vanguards of advisers and security experts Americans to coincide with the rising tide of lawlessness gripping the country recently. Informed sources said that a team of experts and advisers security arrived a few days ago to the capital, Baghdad, and is expected to arrive within days the next vanguard of a new military elements coming from the United States to Iraq.
The sources, who declined to be named, said the return of U.S. leadership to work in Iraq comes in the light of the deterioration of security that has ravaged the country since for quite some time blatant central government deficit to reduce the series of repeated security breaches. Observers believe and specialists in Iraqi political affairs that fears of a return to civil war in Iraq seems to have found to resonate with the American circles in Washington, which is keen on “the success of her experiences in Iraq,” within the framework of the strategic agreement between Baghdad and Washington.
Observers links between the new U.S. presence in Iraq and the recent visit of the commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin, who arrived in Baghdad last Thursday. Sources say that Austin has warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of the danger of growing Iranian role in Iraq.
The U.S. embassy in Iraq, has said that the visit of the commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin to Baghdad on 14 – 16th of May came to discuss cooperation frameworks between the U.S. and Iraq in the field of defense and regional security issues.
According to a statement issued by the Office of the Spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that the visit by the commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin to Baghdad touched on “the situation in Iraq and areas of cooperation as well as the overall security situation in Syria.”
The statement added that “Gen. Austin met with a number of Iraqi officials, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi Agency and National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayad and Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Armed Forces Lieutenant General Babacar Zebari.” The statement cited “said Gen. Austin said during his meetings with the efforts made by the United States in the framework of the Strategic Framework Agreement and to support democratic development in Iraq.”
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