Some Substantiation to Previous Blog on Troop Withdrawal from Iraq!
March 5, 2006
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The previous Blog carried the account of two UK papers claiming that all foreign forces would be out of Iraq by spring in 2007. The Report from DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources gives some evidence of the UK articles having some validity. I do not doubt they will be out of Iraq by 2008, but “by the spring of 2007” may be a tad early.
As I indicated they would in the previous Blog, the Pentagon Defense Department denied the report by the two UK news papers, and rightly so.
Begin DEBKA-Net-Weekly 244 Report
US troops redeploy in Iraq ahead of pull-out, have evacuated one-fifth of its territory – DEBKA-Net-Weekly 244 revealed on Friday, March 3
March 5, 2006, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The British papers Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph subsequently reported a decision taken in Washing ton and London
to pull their troops from Iraq by early 2007.
Both governments accept that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq is now a large obstacle to securing peace.
Pentagon spokesman Major Paul Swiergosz denied the report: We`ve made no such plans,” he commented. In its Friday edition,
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources named the regions where the US presence has shrunk. One is the western side of Mosul
in northern Iraq.
Sunni guerrilla and al Qaeda forces which fled to safety on the Syrian side of the border are back
and in control of much of West Mosul.
Hardly a s ingle US troop rema
ins in the al Qaim province, where from March 2003 American forces fought many a bitter battle to sever the underground highway from Syria into Iraq and eradicate the strongholds carved out by insurgents and terrorists to smuggle in manpower, cash and weapons from Syria.
US forces have likewise exited the Sunni Triangle towns north of Falluja, Ramadi and Ar Rutbah. Their withdrawal from parts of Baghdad has also left a discernible gap in security while also reducing US casualties.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly added: President George W.
Bush approved the revamped tactics before he set out on his visits to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan this week.
However, our military experts doubt whether the new tactical plan will stand up to the waves of terror engulfing Iraq or contribute much to subduing it.
The American redeployment has been too rapid and the tempo of training the different Iraqi units too slow to bring relief any time soon.
While US forces have evacuated around one-fifth of the territory they formerly occupied, not a single Iraqi battalion or brigade is as yet capable of operating without US backup, whether air force, armor, artillery, medical units or logistical suppliers of ammo and food.
End DEBKA-Net-Weekly 244 Report
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