The Iraqi security forces is not ready for taking control of most of the Iraq's 18 provinces by the end of the year, as had been hoped previously, as said by the American general in charge of training soldiers of the nation and the police said.
Lieutenant General James Dubik said Iraq's security forces had been consistently improving, but there was no need for a rush despite the plan to begin a gradual withdrawal of US troops, which will see 20,000 troops leave Iraq by July 2008. Dubik's predecessor Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey said before handing over in June that Iraqi forces should be ready to be in control of 14 provinces by the end of the year. "I do not think we will," Dubik told Reuters at the Rustumiya military academy on the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad.
"We are not on a calendar at all. Conditions in each province dictate that when we do," he said Sunday. Security responsibility in eight provinces have been delivered to the Iraqis so far, the latest in Karbala last month. The neighboring province of return to Iraqi control will be the main center for oil production of Basra in southern Iraq in mid-December. Dubik said Iraqi security chiefs had been informed of where the American commander General David Petraeus planned to pull troops and was confident local forces would be able to fill their places. He would not identify the areas concerned.
"It was synchronized as much as possible in anticipation of that," he said. "The Iraqi security forces have taken steps to ensure that the forces in those areas are quantitatively to the required level."
Units of the police: Iraq government wants to start paying the salaries of units Neighborhood Security, which were supported by the American forces and credited with helping cut violence in the country, an American general said Monday.
Brigadier General Edward Cardon, a deputy commander of a zone stretching from the southern suburbs of Baghdad in central Iraq, said coalition forces are currently pay wages. "However, the government of Iraq has provided us, saying that he would support this role and they start to work with these groups of citizens and pay for what they do," said Cardon conference press.
"It's still in its infancy, but (is) a very positive development."
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said he was not immediately aware of any Iraqi regime to pay wages. Such an approach would mark growing government support for the units.
Lieutenant General James Dubik said Iraq's security forces had been consistently improving, but there was no need for a rush despite the plan to begin a gradual withdrawal of US troops, which will see 20,000 troops leave Iraq by July 2008. Dubik's predecessor Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey said before handing over in June that Iraqi forces should be ready to be in control of 14 provinces by the end of the year. "I do not think we will," Dubik told Reuters at the Rustumiya military academy on the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad.
"We are not on a calendar at all. Conditions in each province dictate that when we do," he said Sunday. Security responsibility in eight provinces have been delivered to the Iraqis so far, the latest in Karbala last month. The neighboring province of return to Iraqi control will be the main center for oil production of Basra in southern Iraq in mid-December. Dubik said Iraqi security chiefs had been informed of where the American commander General David Petraeus planned to pull troops and was confident local forces would be able to fill their places. He would not identify the areas concerned.
"It was synchronized as much as possible in anticipation of that," he said. "The Iraqi security forces have taken steps to ensure that the forces in those areas are quantitatively to the required level."
Units of the police: Iraq government wants to start paying the salaries of units Neighborhood Security, which were supported by the American forces and credited with helping cut violence in the country, an American general said Monday.
Brigadier General Edward Cardon, a deputy commander of a zone stretching from the southern suburbs of Baghdad in central Iraq, said coalition forces are currently pay wages. "However, the government of Iraq has provided us, saying that he would support this role and they start to work with these groups of citizens and pay for what they do," said Cardon conference press.
"It's still in its infancy, but (is) a very positive development."
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said he was not immediately aware of any Iraqi regime to pay wages. Such an approach would mark growing government support for the units.
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