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| IRAN to train IRAQ's military |
| 2005-07-07 |
| sigh Mr Dulaimi is on his first official visit to the Islamic Republic Former enemies Iran and Iraq say they will launch broad military co-operation including training Iraqi armed forces. "It's a new chapter in our relations with Iraq," said Iranian Defence Minister Admiral Ali Shamkhani. He was speaking at a joint news conference in Tehran with his Iraqi counterpart Saadoun al-Dulaimi. Relations between the neighbours - who fought a bitter war from 1980 to 1988 - have improved greatly since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This is the first visit to Iran by an Iraqi military delegation since the war, in which a million people died, started. The promise of co-operation comes despite repeated accusations by the US - which has about 140,000 troops in Iraq - that Iran has been undermining security there. "No one can prevent us from reaching an agreement," Mr Shamkhani said when asked about possible US opposition. Mr Dulaimi echoed his Iranian counterpart's view about a new era of Iranian-Iraqi ties. "I have come to Iran to ask forgiveness for what Saddam Hussein has done. The same has to be done with Kuwait and all Saddam Hussein's victims," he told the news conference. Tehran has asked Baghdad not to allow the US to establish long-term military bases on its soil, fearing that it would consolidate what Iranians see as the American and Israeli military domination of the region. But Mr Dulaimi insisted that foreign troops were needed to ensure Iraqi security. He added: "Iraq will not be a source of insecurity and instability for any of its neighbours. Nobody can use [Iraqi territory] to attack its neighbours." Among other areas of co-operation, Mr Shamkhani listed mine clearance, anti-terrorism, identifying those still missing from the Iran-Iraq war and training and re-equipping the Iraqi army. The two ministers said more sensitive issues such as a full peace treaty and war reparations were still a long way from being resolved. "We have come to our Iranian brothers to ask them for help and we have not yet started on the more sensitive issues," Mr Dulaimi said. In May Iran's foreign minister promised to tighten security on the two countries' border on his first visit to Baghdad. An Iraqi government delegation headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is expected to visit Tehran next week. |
| Posted by:too true |
| #9 Joseph... you are in rare form today! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-07 23:56 |
| #8 Think Mullah-specific implosion - between now and 2020 the Lefties wanna destabilize and implode the USA, so Dubya's imploding back. The Lefties for the time being don't believe that American-specific DemoCapitalism, Federalism, and Republicanism, etc, can withstand the rigors of Republican Federalist Rightist America fighting for Global Empire and paying for Global Modernization of both friends and enemies, - ISTS and -ISMS! Russia-China are already militarized societies or Nation-States, America is NOT - the Left for now prefers America-destabilizing, PC, anti-US/Western LIMITED WAR(S) with both America and NATO NOT fully mobilized for WW3, aka the Left's FINAL STRUGGLE/CONFLICT - remember, the Lefties and Commies have nothing except the milyuhns and bilyuhns of human lives Socialism can't take care of anyway outside of propaganda. Contemporary Leftism and Socialism stands for nothing except Politics, selfish Power, Profiteering, and Governmentism, and related, getting everything for nothing at no risk/costs or at someone else's PC expense or burden. They want America and only America to bear the full costs, blood, and blame for OWG, Global Socialism, Global Regulation, Global BUreaucracy, and Global Modernization, ....etc, then when all is said is said and done AMERICA nor it Allies are NOT allowed to control, dominate, or govern its own Empire and OWG. Hell - America is not even allowed to be sovereign as Americans know the same to mean. And just in case the Clintons and their cabal fail, its anti-US Global Nuke War anytime after 2015-2020. The Lefties are power-mad enough, desperate enough, and evil or perverted enough to take the world with them into the abyss of hell. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-07-07 23:25 |
| #7 Look, if the Iranians want to train the Iraqi Army by providing targets for the Iraqis to shoot at, then I've got no problem with that. |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2005-07-07 22:01 |
| #6 Agreed, AP! |
| Posted by: BA 2005-07-07 21:37 |
| #5 I would like some independent verification of this. After all, it IS the BEEB. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-07-07 21:33 |
| #4 perhaps our Merkin officers can make contacts with Iranian officers - explain to them in a PPT where the mullahs are leading them :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-07 20:10 |
| #3 Iranian brothers? Don't like the direction this is taking Yeah I've got a bad feeling about this |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-07 19:41 |
| #2 Not a good omen. The hell with the Iraq-Iran war, Iran is fostering terrorism in Iraq today. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-07-07 19:24 |
| #1 This isn't Scrappleface? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-07 18:47 |