Al-Dabbagh: Iraq can handle its security alone, America, we need to train only
The spokesman for the Iraqi government, Tuesday, that the Iraqi security forces are able to handle security alone, while confirming that Iraq needs U.S. forces to train its forces only.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, who is accompanying Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his current visit to China, said that "the size of the Iraqi forces arrived so good we can with the control of the security file and internal threats," stressing that "the threat posed by terrorist groups and militias is no longer as it was before, and therefore we can manage the security file without the need for foreign troops."
Dabbagh said that "the policy of using terror sleeper cells, but is no longer a force threatening the security and social peace in Iraq, and we can through our national basis to deal with it efficiently."
Dabbagh said in the same time that Iraq needs U.S. troops in training security forces, air and sea only, "but the combat forces should be an Iraqi and the Iraqi mission."
Scheduled to withdraw U.S. troops late this year according to the security agreement concluded between the U.S. and the Iraqi government in 2008, calls the political blocs to call the commander of the armed forces to the parliament to determine the possibility of the readiness of Iraqi forces or not, but that the coalition of Kurdish blocs announcing the intention forces to remain because of the security conditions and political conditions of the country, at the time rejected the damaged national extension of these forces.