Iraq agreed to keep 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq for the training of troops

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Iraq agreed to keep 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq for the training of troops

Date:2011-10-11Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0

Data for: December 7, 2009, U.S. military instructors in southwest Baghdad, the U.S. military base in Karbala, training Iraqi police.

BAGHDAD October 11 (Reporter Wang Hongbin) 11, quoted the Iraqi media as saying President Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi side agreed to expire at the end of this year after U.S. troops left 5,000 people for training Iraqi security forces, but do not enjoy immunity.

Iraq, “Morning News” reported the same day, told the newspaper interview, Talabani said the Iraqi factions agreed to let U.S. troops stay in 5000, has been the proposal to the United States, the United States is waiting for reply.

Talabani said that Iraq imported from the United States a lot of new weapons, the U.S. really need to keep training the Iraqi army, but not to the U.S. military judicial immunity. This is the first public reference to the Iraqi leader left behind a specific number of U.S. troops.

Iraqi factions issued a statement last week announced an agreement for U.S. troops to stay a few people to train Iraqi security forces, but refused to grant judicial immunity. The United States had once enjoyed judicial immunity as a condition of staying in the U.S..

U.S. troops in Iraq at this stage there are about 4.4 million people. According to Iraqi and U.S. signed in 2008 Status of Forces Agreement, the U.S. military should withdraw from Iraq by end of this year. The United States since the beginning of the year put pressure on the Iraqi government has repeatedly urged the Iraqi initiative to ask the U.S. military presence overdue. Iraqi factions to reach agreement in August this year, agreed to the government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the United States to negotiate the retention of a small number of troops, but the two sides have yet to announce progress in negotiations.

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