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...there's something to be said for the American way. In 2008, after thinly spread British forces had effectively lost control of Basra to Shi'ite militias, the Iraqi army turned to the U.S. for support to drive out the insurgents. The British, though nominally heading up the coalition forces in the region, played a subsidiary role and, according to some reports, only found out about the operation once it was under...
...Indeed, once British forces acknowledged the flaws in their Iraqi strategy they successfully recalibrated their approach and made substantial strides in the stabilization of Basra before their final withdrawal last year. General Salmon, who took command of coalition forces in 2008, says he reinterpreted his role to be a "catalyst and a convening authority" for Basrawis and the different agencies working in the area, most of them outside his command. "As a military commander, not owning quite a lot of the other organizations and lines of development on the social, economic, political and development front, how do you then start...
...procedure for detention and collection of evidence can only be described as a shambles," wrote Lieut. Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the army's senior legal officer in Iraq, in a memo written only months before Mousa's death. A further inquiry has started to examine claims that up to 20 Iraqi detainees were killed in British custody in 2004, an allegation denied by Britain's defense ministry...
Khalil is referring to the sectarian violence that handcuffed the city to hell in 2006 and 2007. Today the citizens of Baghdad cannot help but see causes for alarm. U.S. forces, barred by a 2008 security agreement from entering the capital without an Iraqi invitation, have been called to assist with the investigation into the recent bombings. U.S. military and law enforcement are working shoulder to shoulder with Iraqis for on-the-job training in intelligence gathering and sharing and crime-scene investigation. Bombs that had been rigged at two houses were disabled on Tuesday based on tips, and nearly...
...officials in Iraq are adamant, however, that there are no parallels between now and then. "As long as the Iraqi people continue to reject violence, al-Qaeda will defeat themselves," says Lieut. Colonel Eric Bloom, a U.S. military spokesman. On Monday, another U.S. military spokesman and two U.S. commanders called me up to insist that there will not be a security devolution to the bad old days when bodies of Sunnis and Shi'ites littered the streets...