Jones Report: Iraqi Security Forces Not Ready
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Iraq's Interior Ministry is "dysfunctional," filled with sectarianism and corruption, according to an independent assessment of the Iraqi security forces to be published tomorrow. The report said that Iraq's national police force, controlled by that ministry, is "operationally ineffective" and sh...
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Baghdad -- Saturday&#39;s bloody massacre of dozens of Iraqi army recruits heading home for leave after training at the Kirkush military base on the Iran-Iraq border has raised fears that Iraq&#39;s security forces have become deeply infiltrated by insurgents.
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Iraq's security forces will not be able to take over from US troops within the next 18 months, a new report finds.
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Iraqi security forces will need years of mentoring and support from U.S. forces, a senior U.S. commander said on Friday, warning against an American withdrawal before local forces can operate independently.
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Iraqi security forces won't be able to handle major security challenges for years - perhaps as many as 15 - and won't be able to take the lead in attacking insurgent strongholds before elections scheduled for ...
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President Bush [related, bio] pointedly acknowledged today that US-trained Iraqi troops are not ready to take over their country&#39;s security, and cautioned that next month&#39;s elections there
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The security situation in Iraq will not be resolved until the army and police are made up entirely of Iraqi people, the country&#39;s interim president said today.
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The U.S. intelligence community has failed to provide policymakers with  a clear understanding of the Iraq insurgency, the role of militias or the level of violence in that country, according to the Iraq Study Group.
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The senior US general in Iraq expresses concern about the ability of Iraqi forces to cope with election security.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation if the level of violence continues unchecked.
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WASHINGTON -- The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the US military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with ...
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control of the violence.
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Iraqi forces will protect polling places during the coming elections, but there are far fewer trained security officers than needed.
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ADELPHI, Md. - It will take three to five years before Iraq's government is stable enough to operate on its own, according to the former commander of US forces in the Middle East, who said the surge of American forces has not solved the country's broader problems.
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A lack of Iraqi government organization and the city's ethnic mix complicates preparations for suppressing the insurgency
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Iraq's army, despite measurable progress, will be unable to take over internal security from U.S. forces in the next 12 to 18 months and "cannot yet meaningfully contribute to denying terrorists safe haven," according to a report on the Iraqi security forces published today.
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Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces -- an increase of more than 40 percent over the...