American newspaper: the American soldiers to stay because they have worked as a barrier between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi forces

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American newspaper: the American soldiers to stay because they have worked as a barrier between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi forces

2011-05-18 16:01

- Neighborhood: newspaper Christian Science Montour detailed report on the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq and the proximity of the termination.

And brought to light the newspaper on the tense situation between the Kurds and Arabs in the disputed areas, and stressed, quoting a U.S. officer in the U.S. military's role in preventing the outbreak of tensions along the disputed border between the north controlled by the Kurds and central Iraq. The officer said that U.S. soldiers who have served as a barrier between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government forces, he said.

"Let's be clear - the reason why we should stay is to keep Iraqis and prevent them from fighting each other, especially the Kurds and the Arabs."

The expert for neighbors that there had been skirmishes remember between Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga forces over the past eight past and pointed out that the Peshmerga are part of the Iraqi forces if he had wanted the Arabs and the Kurds fighting them did not affect the presence of the Americans on this and added that the clashes moved from the battlefields to the building Parliament and this is the nature of democracy which we demand of all these years. He often comes at the tongue of American officials is only the arguments, in order to keep their troops in Iraq for a longer period.

This and the White House decided today to extend a state of emergency, which means the stability of Iraq for an additional year after 22 May 2011.

And the deployment of the White House issued a statement in which he explained the continuation of the contents of Executive Order 13303 which was issued on 22 March 2003, was amended by Executive Orders 13,315 and 13,350 and 13,364 and 13,438, on the declaration of a state of emergency to protect Iraq and dealing with the exceptional threat to national security and American foreign policy as a result of obstacles resulting from the reconstruction of Iraq and establish peace and stability and cleanse the political institutions, administrative and economic there.

The statement added that as a result of the continuing obstacles in the reconstruction of Iraq and to restore and maintain peace and security which, it was decided to extend the state of emergency aimed at bringing stability there is an additional year.

And signed by President Barack Obama to extend a state of emergency and referred it to Congress.

This and official revealed high-level Iraqi diplomat, who asked not to be named, that the agreement to extend the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq are under implementation has entered its final phase. And revealed the official, in an interview with the newspaper "The future of Iraq," that the Convention, which was the result of discussions between the Office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the U.S. Embassy, ​​including the establishment of nine bases in five provinces, and both of these rules will be close to airports and vital installations. This arrangement allows, according to the official, the possibility of intervention by Washington to support a military coup and to continue to approach intervention against Iraq's neighboring countries such as Iran, Syria, Jordan and the rest of the region.