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A senior Iraqi military official says the Iraqi army wants to continue a long-term training relationship with the United States beyond the 2011 deadline for a U.S. troop withdrawal.
Gen. Nasier Abadi, vice chairman of Iraq's army, told The Washington Times that Iraqi commanders would welcome continued training by U.S. forces despite the withdrawal deadline set late last year.
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WASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq's Representative to the United States, Qubad Talabani addressed the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery commemorating Iraq Liberation Day on Friday, April 9. Members of American and Iraqi forces, including members of the Peshmerga, attended the event, alongside veterans and family of those soldiers who have fallen in support of Iraq's freedom.
On this day, it is appropriate and right for us to commemorate the sacrifices made to liberate Iraq from decades of brutal tyranny under Saddam Hussein," said Mr. Talabani. "So to be absolutely clear: Iraq thanks you. I thank you. And the people of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, most of all, thank you.
...Other speakers included General Nasier Arkan Abadi, Vice Chief of Staff, Iraqi Joint Forc...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The trail that led to the death of militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi began with a tip gleaned from inside his al-Qaida in Iraq organization, military sources said.
An informant, either a detainee or defector, revealed that the key insurgent target was often accompanied by a religious adviser named Sheikh Abdel Rashid Rahman.
...Gen. Nasier Abadi, an officer posted in Baqouba. "Over a month...
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NAJAF, Iraq -- U.S. forces ceded control of southern Najaf province to Iraqi police and soldiers, who marked the occasion Wednesday with a parade and martial arts demonstrations. But doubts remain about whether the Iraqis, vulnerable to insurgent attacks and militia infiltration, can handle security in more volatile provinces anytime soon.
In one of those provinces, Baghdad, police found 76 bodies, some of them blindfolded and handcuffed, on Wednesday. Many of the victims had been shot and some showed signs of torture, a police officer said on condition of anonymity for safety reasons. Two suicide car bombings also killed at least 19 people in the capital.
...Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff of the Iraqi Army, ac...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Many of the American soldiers trying to quell sectarian killings in Baghdad don't appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in troop levels some people are calling for is a bad idea.
President Bush is considering increasing the number of troops in Iraq and embedding more U.S. advisers in Iraqi units. White House advisers have indicated Mr. Bush will announce his new plan for the war before his State of the Union address Jan. 23.
...During a recent interview, Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff for the Iraqi army, s...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saboteurs shut down Iraqi crude oil exports to Turkey for virtually all of the past year, but the oil is flowing again after Iraq's government put in place elaborate new security measures and decided to move its product in what is essentially a clandestine operation.
In the new export system, described over the past two weeks by officials in two state-owned oil companies, the Iraqi armed forces and a deputy prime minister, officials secretly open Iraq's northern pipeline to send batches of oil to Turkey and then shut it down again before insurgents can attack.
...Gen. Nasier Abadi of the Iraqi Army, who supervises parts of t...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Many of the U.S. soldiers trying to quell sectarian killings in Baghdad don't appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in troop levels some people are calling for is a bad idea.
President Bush is considering increasing the number of troops in Iraq and embedding more U.S. advisers in Iraqi units. White House advisers have indicated Bush will announce his new plan for the war before his State of the Union address Jan. 23.
...During a recent interview, Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff for the Iraqi army, s...
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Northern Cyprus helps
The breakaway state of Northern Cyprus is doing its part to help evacuate foreigners from Lebanon, according to the Washington spokesman for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
...* Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, deputy commander of the Iraq Joint Forces, ...
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NAJAF, Iraq - In a show of ferocity, a group of Iraqi commandos bit the heads off frogs and tore apart a live rabbit.
The stomach-turning scene, a tradition for elite units even under Saddam Hussein, was part of a ceremony Wednesday marking U.S.-led forces' handover of security responsibilities to Iraqi police and soldiers in Najaf province.
...Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff of the Iraqi Army, ac...
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Iraqis living in Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods have been able to leave their homes safely for the first time in months, as American foot patrols moved in as part of a beefed-up security plan.
An additional 3,700 U.S. troops deployed in the capital in the past two days to join the roughly 56,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops already in the city.
...Lt. Gen. Nasier Abadi, the deputy commander of Iraq's Joint Force,...