'We are securing trainers for the American weapons we purchased, but without immunity.' PHOTO: AFP/FILE Iraq Threatens To Break Military Links With US -- Financial Times
Baghdad is threatening to break its military relations with Washington at the end of this year and use private contractors to train its armed forces, as the two sides struggle to agree on terms that would see a small number of American troops remain in Iraq next year.
The two sides have agreed in principle that several thousand US troops should stay in Iraq in a training capacity after the official end of the American mission at the end of the year, but they have become bogged down over whether to grant US troops immunity from prosecution if they commit crimes.
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My Comment: I guess this report from AFP is more accurate than this Reuter's report. What is my take .... this reveals how dirty Iraqi politics can be .... by saying that 5,000 US soldiers can be permitted to stay in Iraq in 2012 without immunity is a guarantee that no US soldiers will remain after 2011. But .... Iraq belongs to Iraq .... and if they want the US out .... we must positioned ourselves to accommodate them.
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