AP Blog: Future of Iraqi defense unclear
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AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers Iraq events from Baghdad for The Associated Press.
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U.S. experts studying what to do next in Iraq said Tuesday that the next three months are critical and Baghdad's government must make more progress toward controlling the violence and rebuilding the nation.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials are questioning if Nuri Kamal al-Maliki can keep Iraq from descending into civil war.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's future has been in doubt amid spreading violence and U.S. deaths in Iraq. Whether he would remain in his job was one of the last big question marks about President Bush's second-term Cabinet.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that the mission of private security contractors guarding individuals in Iraq is fundamentally at odds with the broader U.S. military objective of stabilizing Iraq, and that changes would be required to reconcile them.
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The Iraqi government is unlikely to meet any of the political and security goals or timelines President Bush set for it in January when he announced a major shift in U.S. policy, according to senior administration officials closely involved in the matter. As they prepare an interim report due next...
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Along with a recent spike in deadly violence in Iraq, a classified US government report paints a bleak picture of Iraq&#39;s immediate future.
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Iraq is a quagmire, steadily getting worse, as anyone who reads the newspaper knows. Attacks against US forces, our allies, and Iraqis seen to be collaborating with us, are on the rise, alarmingly so.
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Concerns are growing that high-precision equipment in Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons has been &quot;systematically&quot; disappearing
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The U.S. commander of a new offensive north of Baghdad, reclaiming insurgent territory day by day, said Sunday his Iraqi partners may be too weak to hold onto the gains. The Iraqi military does not even have enough ammunition, said Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek: "They're not quite up to the job yet."
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Top U.S. intelligence officials told a Senate committee today that Iran is likely to develop a nuclear weapon by the early to middle part of the next decade and that security and political trends in Iraq are moving in the wrong direction, with Iraqi leaders facing nearly impossible challenges in...
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American money has helped maintain security in Iraq, but now budgetary constraints are slowing the flow of cash
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The top American commander in Iraq on Wednesday said U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces were still not ready to take over the counterinsurgency and there was no guarantee they will ever be able to defeat it on their own.
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Two recent assessments warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world&#39;s leading powers to contain dangerous states.
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The final extra U.S. brigade in a security crackdown to prevent all-out civil war in Iraq is unlikely to be fully operational for up to two months, the U.S. military's top spokesman in Iraq said on Wednesday.
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The top American general in Iraq said   on Wednesday he foresaw Iraqi forces assuming control of the   country's security within 12 to 18 months with "very little"   support from U.S.-led forces.