Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war

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Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war 12/15/2011

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Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war

Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:16:21 AM

BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta arrived at Baghdad airport Thursday to participate in a ceremony that will officially end the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s 81 / 2-year mission in the country.

The ceremony effectively ends the war two weeks earlier than was necessary under the terms of the security agreement signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments in 2008, which stipulated that the troops must be gone by Dec. 31.

But commanders decided there was no need to keep troops in Iraq through the Christmas holidays given that talks on maintaining a U.S. presence beyond the deadline had failed. The date of the final ceremony had been kept secret for weeks, so as not to give insurgents or militias an opportunity to stage attacks.

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Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war 12/15/2011

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Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war

Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:16:21 AM

BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta arrived at Baghdad airport Thursday to participate in a ceremony that will officially end the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s 81 / 2-year mission in the country.

The ceremony effectively ends the war two weeks earlier than was necessary under the terms of the security agreement signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments in 2008, which stipulated that the troops must be gone by Dec. 31.

But commanders decided there was no need to keep troops in Iraq through the Christmas holidays given that talks on maintaining a U.S. presence beyond the deadline had failed. The date of the final ceremony had been kept secret for weeks, so as not to give insurgents or militias an opportunity to stage attacks.

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Security is so tight if a fly ventures into the Air Space around Baghdad Airport it will be shot our of the sky.

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Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war 12/15/2011

NEWS ALERT

Panetta arrives in Baghdad for ceremony to end Iraq war

Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:16:21 AM

BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta arrived at Baghdad airport Thursday to participate in a ceremony that will officially end the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s 81 / 2-year mission in the country.

The ceremony effectively ends the war two weeks earlier than was necessary under the terms of the security agreement signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments in 2008, which stipulated that the troops must be gone by Dec. 31.

But commanders decided there was no need to keep troops in Iraq through the Christmas holidays given that talks on maintaining a U.S. presence beyond the deadline had failed. The date of the final ceremony had been kept secret for weeks, so as not to give insurgents or militias an opportunity to stage attacks.

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