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Article: U.S. COMMANDER CHARTS IRAQI SECURITY FORCES' PROGRESS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 17, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Information Service issued the following press release:
Developing the Iraqi security forces is hard, slow work, the commander of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq said today.
Army Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik told the House Armed Services Committee today that the Iraqis already have security responsibility for nine of the country's 18 provinces. Dubik said the Iraqi security forces will assume internal security responsibility for the whole country "sometime between 2009 and 2012."
He said the Iraqis will assume responsibility for external security "in the 2018, 2020 period."
There has been success in Iraq, but that success is ...