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Posted: Sat 13:47, 24 Aug 2013 Post subject: US is dragging its feet on equipping Iraqi forces |
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US is dragging its feet on equipping Iraqi forces,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Lamenting that Baghdad's requests for everything from higher-caliber guns to armored personnel carriers have gone unanswered,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Iraq's ambassador to the US,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Samir Sumaidaie,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Wednesday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "We have some benchmarks of our own,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and this is one of them."
Washington's list of political and security benchmarks for Iraq to meet will figure prominently in a comprehensive review of Iraq policy in September,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The word "benchmarks" has come to symbolize the frustration that Iraqi leaders feel over intense pressure from Washington to meet what Baghdad sees as US priorities,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Meeting reporters in the Iraqi Embassy, Ambassador Sumaidaie said he could not explain the slow response to Iraqi arms requests. "If we want them to stand up, let's help them stand up," he added.
The US has had some problems delivering arms and equipment to its own troops in Iraq. Beyond that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Pentagon and administration officials have debated for years the merits of delivering powerful weapons to the Iraqis. Amid evidence that Iraqi Security Forces are infiltrated by militias and insurgent groups, officials worry that US weapons would be turned against American soldiers.
The US has also worried that its arms could end up adding fuel to the fire of a potential civil war.
Sumaidaie said it is counterproductive to leave Iraqi forces poorly equipped. US soldiers arrive at battle scenes in armored vehicles, while "Iraqi soldiers pile into the back of pickup trucks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he noted. "They see their American counterparts fully armed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and that is demoralizing for them."
US arms sales to Iraq and Afghanistan in fiscal 2007 were pegged to total about $3 billion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including some armored personnel carriers to Iraq,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], say US defense officials. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kohler, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in December those sales would be similar to sales in fiscal 2006.
Sumaidaie says the slow US response has led Iraqi officials to turn to other sources. He cites a recent deal with China to sell high-powered rifles to the Iraqi military. "We prefer to work with our American friends," Sumaidaie said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but chided the US that patience is running short.
The US is also concerned about high-powered weapons and munitions that are showing up at battle sites,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as the growing use of Chinese armor-piercing ammunition by insurgents. Pentagon officials have recently addressed these concerns with Beijing.相关的主题文章:
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