Tuesday, March 15

The Next Hurrah: GAO Report: Iraqi Security is a Mess  

Regarding the main subject of the report, nobody has good information on the preparedness of the Iraqi forces. The Iraqi Ministry of Interior doesn’t collect reliable status reports from the police units. The number of troops and police reported to have been trained, equipped and on duty amounts to only 51% of the necessary forces required to turn over control by July 2006 (as spelled out in a classified Department of Defense campaign plan), and even that number is grossly inflated, as it includes police and soldiers who are absent without leave (AWOL), which unnamed DoD officials claim number “in the tens of thousands” out of a total of just 59,000. To make matters worse, DoD and State have stopped monitoring the status of Iraqi force readiness through reports of weaponry, vehicles, communication capabilities and prevalence of body armor.

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