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	New Iraqi Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coalition Provisional Authority envisions the New Iraqi Army to be for defense only and separate from the civil police force (which will fall under jurisdiction of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior).
		One of the many organizations created to replace the duties of the former Iraqi army (disbanded by U.S. Administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer), the New Iraqi Army was originally intended to comprise of 3 divisions numbering 40,000 soldiers in 3 years time.
		Virtually all of the equipment used by the former Iraqi Army was either destroyed by the U.S. during Operation Iraqi Freedom or was looted during the chaotic aftermath shortly after the fall of the Hussein regime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Army (1433 words)

	Iraqi Army
		On 28 July 1921 the army took al-Kadhmia as headquarter in khan (al-Kabully) then it was transferred to Hilla to replace the British army, which was being withdrawn according to a plan to reduce the British forces in Iraq.
		Iraqi ground forces in the KTO included elements of up to 43 divisions, 25 of which are assessed as committed, 10 the operational reserve, and eight the strategic reserve.
		The Iraqi assumption that the tactics used in the Iran-Iraq War would be applicable against the Coalition proved faulty, as did their assumption that the attack would be terrain-oriented in support of the Coalition's political goal of liberating Kuwait.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/army.htm (2034 words)

	1st Infantry Division News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Iraqi Army Division established, but the event coincided with all Iraqi National Guard units in the country being absorbed into the sovereign nation’s new army.
		On June 17, 2003, the Iraqi Army was dissolved along with the Ministry of Defense.
		Abdul Azziz, commander of the 4th Iraqi Army Division, right, uncase the division's colors during a ceremony that formally recognized the activation of the 4th Iraqi Army Division.
	www.1id.army.mil /1ID/News/January/Article_22/Article_22.htm (365 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Iraqi army lite
		Officers of the former Iraqi army are being trained for a new national defence force.
		Army officers were most certainly members of the party: it was a condition of the job.
		Both he and Al-Waaly are critical towards the new army: the number of 40,000 men, to their minds, is much too low, especially as this includes the border police and the civil defence forces.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/688/re9.htm (1164 words)

	Iraqi Military Reconstruction - New Iraqi Army (NIA)
		The New Iraqi Army's primary responsibilities would be for border protection, securing roads and installations, and clearing mines and unexploded bombs left over from the war.
		By early 2005 the Iraqi Interim and Transitional Governments, with Coalition assistance, had fielded over 90 battalions in order to provide security within Iraq during a period of an intense counterinsurgency campaign that was designed to suppress the development of democracy.
		Army Day ceremonies around Iraq including reading of a proclamation issued by Gen. Babakir that recalled the proud history of the Iraqi Army, announced the activation of nine Iraqi Army divisions, and explained the incorporation of the National Guard into the Regular Army.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/nia.htm (1504 words)

	Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable
		But as the Bush administration extols the continuing progress of the new Iraqi army, the project in Baiji, a desolate oil town at a strategic crossroads in northern Iraq, demonstrates the immense challenges of building an army from scratch in the middle of a bloody insurgency.
		The Americans drove fully enclosed armored Humvees, the Iraqis open-backed Humvees with benches, the sides of which were protected by plating the equivalent of a flak jacket.
		Most of the Iraqis sleep in two tents and a shed with a concrete floor and corrugated tin roof that is bereft of walls.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902245_pf.html (2465 words)

	IRAQ THE MODEL
		Another example: they reported that the American army bombed a house, while the fact was that some mortar shells fired by the so-called resistance men hit the house and this was not the first time; tens of mortar shells fell on residential areas in my town.
		They kill innocents and they justify their doings by saying that Iraqis cooperate with the occupation while the truth is that these poor victims were people who loved and served their country by joining the IP to bring stability and peace to Iraq where coward terrorists established their stronghold.
		Iraqis were dying and no one bothered himself to ask about the "legal position" when Saddam was murdering Iraqis in thousands.
	iraqthemodel.blogspot.com /archives/2004_07_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html (12879 words)

	Assumption of Command: Iraqi Army prepares for Operation Lightning
		I have said it many times, the quicker the Iraqi Army and police forces can defended their own country, better off both the US Military and the Iraqis will be.
		The deputy commander of the Iraqi Army says his forces have "turned the corner" and are now well on their way to self-sufficiency.
		The Iraqis are getting sick and tired of the violence in their streets and their new govenment wants to do something about it.
	assumecommand.blogspot.com /2005/05/iraqi-army-prepares-for-operation.html (1024 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Iraqi Army Opens $165 Million Base at An Numaniyah
		Soldiers from the Iraqi army stand in ranks during the flag raising ceremony at the army base at An Numaniyah, Iraq, Sept. 1.
		Soldiers from the Iraqi army stand ready for inspection during the flag raising ceremony at the army base at An Numaniyah, Iraq, Sept. 1.
		An Iraqi Police Services regiment is also tentatively slated to commence special military operations in urban terrain training — counterinsurgency instruction — with the arrival of a officer class toward the end of September.
	www.defendamerica.gov /articles/sep2004/a090204c.html (762 words)

	The emerging Iraqi army - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their story is only partially told by the recent spike in numbers of Iraqi army battalions from only a few a year ago to 117 today.
		We visited the Iraqi 9th Mechanized Division located in Taji a few miles north of Baghdad in one of the hottest and most contested regions of Iraq.
		Iraqi casualties are higher than American because Iraqi small units often jump too quickly into battle rather than holding back.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20051013-084116-5500r.htm (855 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: Training the Iraqi Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We have already seen that Iraqi forces are being deployed outside of their local regions to minimize problems with insurgents threatening and attacking the soldiers families and reduce their loyalties to the local establishment.
		Iraqi units are slowing being given independence from the Coalition: “Tiger Unit Given Control of Area in Baghdad”;; “Iraqi Army unit takes control of Forward Operating Base”; Iraqi troops take control of the dangerous Dora neighborhood and Haifa Street in Baghdad.
		I am of the opinion the US Army should have increased in size by at least five divisions immediately after the attacks on September 11 (remember our Army consisted of 18 active divisions during the Cold War and was downsized to current 10 divisions during the drawdown after the defeat of the Soviet Union).
	www.windsofchange.net /archives/007004.php (8014 words)

	The United States Army Home Page
		U.S. and Iraqi forces, participating in Operation Steel Curtain, are making inroads against insurgents holed up in Anbar Province, near the Syrian border.
		The availability of 212,000 Iraqi security troops enables that force to leave behind a persistent security presence after towns are liberated from insurgent influence, said Maj. Gen.
		Currently, there are 147 women serving in the Afghan National Army, including two who were among the first group of 58 pilots in the ANA's Air Corps.
	www.army.mil (454 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraqi army walkout over pay
		The resignations are a blow to US attempts to build up the Iraqi security forces, who will have a far greater role in running the country once America and Britain hand over power to the Iraqis on July 1.
		Army officers were paid $180, putting them on the same wage as senior police.
		Eventually the US hopes to build up an army of 35,000 Iraqis, who will work alongside the several other security forces: the much larger police force, the border police, a building guard force, and a paramilitary civil defence corps.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1105382,00.html (548 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iraq - Armed Defense Forces & Military: Army, Navy, and Air Force - Size, Equipment, and Organization \| ...
		Whereas in 1978 active-duty military personnel numbered less than 200,000, and the military was equipped with some of the most sophisticated weaponry of the Soviet military arsenal, by 1987 the quality of offensive weapons had improved dramatically, and the number of new under arms had increased almost fourfold (see table 10, Appendix).
		The vast majority of the army's equipment inventory was of Soviet manufacture, although French and Brazilian equipment in particular continued to be acquired in Iraq's ongoing attempt to diversify its sources of armaments (see table 11, Appendix).
		Iraqi propaganda statements claimed that Saddam Husayn had "developed new military ideas and theories of global importance," but few Western military analysts gave credence to such claims.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iraq/iraq86.html (1583 words)

	US assembles new Iraqi army \| csmonitor.com
		The effort to tap Iraqis to perform some jobs now handled by coalition troops is part of a broader plan to put "an Iraqi face" on the postwar administration.
		Mohammad al-Dulaimi, whose fine clothes and grooming lend veracity to his claim to be a former lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi Army, took an application but hesitated to turn it in.
		Some former Iraqi enlisted men sought reassurance that their treatment in the new Army would be better than it was in the old one.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0722/p01s01-woiq.html (1062 words)

	Abd al-Karim Qasim -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Iraqi army officer and politician who was president of Iraq from 1963 to 1966.
		Iraqi lawyer and politician who was prime minister of Iraq (1933, 1940–41, 1941) and one of the most celebrated political leaders of the Arab world during his time.
		King Faysal II and Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah were both assassinated, and Iraq was subsequently declared a republic by its new leader, 'Abd al-Karim Qasim, a general in the Iraqi army.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062109 (554 words)

	CBS News \| Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed \| May 4, 2005 11:56:16
		According to the U.S. Army, one Iraqi prisoner was told to stand on a box with his head covered, wires attached to his hands.
		The Army investigation confirms that soldiers at Abu Ghraib were not trained at all in Geneva Convention rules.
		Part of the Army's own investigation is a statement from an Iraqi detainee who charges a translator - hired to work at the prison - with raping a male juvenile prisoner: "They covered all the doors with sheets.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml (2326 words)

	U.S. Is Speeding Up Plan for Creating a New Iraqi Army
		Walter B. Slocombe, in charge of rebuilding Iraqi security institutions, said the new goal is 27 battalions organized in three divisions within 12 months, twice as fast as in initial plans.
		The speeding up of plans to deploy an Iraqi army that might relieve some of the pressure on American forces comes against a backdrop of mounting difficulties in Iraq for the Bush administration.
		Slocombe said that the old Iraqi Army "did a perfectly competent job of basic training," and that approved Iraqi military personnel, from noncommissioned officers through lieutenant colonels, would train the new force.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/09/18/international/middleeast/18MILI.html?ex=1379217600&en=13bb5d6efea9e099&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (871 words)

	U.S. Army General Dubbed Father of the Iraqi Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The New Iraqi Army in the summer of 2004 is about at the same stage the ARVN was in 1961.
		So far -- the Iraqi have shown their free will by complaining that we haven't improved their life enough, and the courage to demonstrate with glee at the murder of their benefactors and liberators, KNOWING we will tolerate their insane celebration and not kill them for their behavior.
		At the age of 33, in 1763, Steuben was discharged as a captain from the army, for reasons that are only speculative.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1154136/posts (5172 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		Answer: Go to the Army Family Liaison Office web site at http://www.aflo.org or to the Army Community Service web site at http://www.goacs.org and you should be able to find the information/contacts you need.
		The Army Family Assistance Hotline is for use only by family members of Soldiers on active duty and those in the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve called to active duty.
		The mission of the hotline is to provide Army families caring support in the form of accurate information, useful resources, and helpful referrals related to family issues.
	www.army.mil /operations/iraq/faq.html (1040 words)

	Raed in the Middle
		After the US army is kicked out/ withdraws form Iraq, we'll talk about how many trillions of dollars should be paid to Iraq and Iraqis as compensation for the illegal war, occupation, murders, and destruction of their country.
		The National Iraqi Army must be rebuilt again, it is well respected by the Iraqi people, and it can take the responsibility of the security problems inside the cities, and protect borders.
		Rebuilding the Iraqi Army will give a chance to the American army to withdraw and reduce the daily contact with the Iraqi people, in a first step before the complete withdrawal of the American army, this idea of leaving permanent American bases is like starting a non-stop war.
	raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com (2989 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Massacre of Iraqi army recruits
		We found the dead lying face down by the roadside with a single bullet wound to the head," Iraqi national guard commander Ali al-Kaaki is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
		The BBC's Claire Marshall in Baghdad says the army recruits were believed to have just finished a training course at a camp near the Iranian border.
		On Saturday, 20 Iraqi policemen were killed and 47 wounded in two separate suicide car bombing attacks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3948675.stm (552 words)

	Austin Bay Blog » Iraqi Army Capability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pentagon officials said later that only three of the approximately 100 Iraqi army battalions are taking on the insurgents by themselves.
		Only “a small number” of Iraqi security forces are capable of fighting the insurgency without U.S. assistance, while about one-third of the army is capable of “planning, executing and sustaining counterinsurgency operations” with allied support, the analysis said.
		However, the second answer is based on the “way things really work.” Tthe Iraqi Army units probably know what their overall assessment is and I’ll bet they talk about it.
	austinbay.net /blog?p=440 (2369 words)

	Building An Arab Army That Can Kick Ass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Arab armies are not known for taking good care of their troops.
		But this does not make for a "kick ass army." For that you need an army full of officers at every level who know what they are doing and trust all other officers to know their jobs as well.
		Older Iraqis remember the equally swift defeat by the British in 1941, and all Iraqis wince at the memory of being subjugated for centuries by a handful of Turkish soldiers.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/20030527.asp (1083 words)

	Iraqi Regular Army
		In the days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi Regular Army consisted of 300,000 troops, organized into 5 corps.
		Disposition of the Iraqi Regular Army -- January 10, 2003
		The force was primarily located in eastern Iraq.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/iraqi_regular_army.html (142 words)

	Whiskey Bar: April 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Iraqi politicians, ordinary Iraqis, and U.S. contractors have the sense that Bremer’s goal is to leave Iraq with his reputation intact.
		It is ingrained in the Iraqi psyche to keep a close hold on their own thoughts when surrounded by people with guns.
		Even then, if the conventional rule of thumb for peacekeeping duties is correct (and given the Iraqi realities, it probably wouldn't be unreasonable to double it) the Army wouldn't have anything like the number of troops it needs to restore a semblance of security in Iraq.
	billmon.org /archives/2004_04.html (14331 words)

	CNN.com - Coalition: Nearly half of new Iraqi army has quit - Dec. 11, 2003
		About 300 of 700 members of the new Iraqi army have resigned, citing unhappiness with terms, conditions and pay and with instructions of commanding officers, a representative of the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday.
		The first and only battalion of the new army serves under the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division.
		The journalists were accompanying a patrol from the Army's 1st Armored Division when unknown attackers threw hand grenades at the vehicles.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/12/11/sprj.irq.main (1057 words)

	Iraqi Army ready - Investor's Iraq Forum
		Iraqi Army ready to take reins in Sadr City
		In Iraq and for the first time, a new common strategic plan put together by groups from defense, interior ministries joined with multinational forces, a statement released following the meeting said.
		Finally, he said, ''It is very important for Iraqi people to understand that Iraqi security forces are here to help them as far as possible'' emphasizing that terror would end by this summer because they either being under arrest, in prison or dead.
	www.investorsiraq.com /iraqi-govt-society-forum/5755-iraqi-army-ready.html (288 words)

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