In a move that will likely complicate Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to settle on keeping US troops in the nation beyond December, a new statement was issued today by Iraq’s political leadership rejecting blanket immunity for US troops in the nation.
The statement agreed on the notion of keeping US “trainers” in the country, something Maliki has been fighting for, but insisted that since all the training was supposed to happen on Iraqi military bases there was no need to give them immunity for actions off base.
This would be fine as far as actual training actions go, but much as the Obama Administration redefined all the troops as “non-combat” in August of 2010 while continuing combat missions, it was believed that they would just redefine all the troops as “trainers” but continue to use them for military offensives.
This rejection from Iraq’s political leaders might spur more discussion with neighboring Kuwait, as the Obama Administration is reportedly keen on the idea of “pre-positioning” combat troops in Kuwait to launch attacks on Iraq in the future.
AAAWWWW, The Boyz would have to BEHAVE….???? No shootin 'Hajis" fo sport…. WTF is dis world cummin to…
No problim we will jus do like the Brits did… Break the boyz out if they get detained….
British Army Storms Basra Jail to Free 2 Soldiers From Arrest
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: September 20, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 19 – Two British soldiers working under cover were arrested Monday in the southern city of Basra and then freed as a British armored vehicle blasted through the wall of their jail after an angry crowd began rioting outside, an Interior Ministry official said.
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The official said that the soldiers were undercover officers dressed as Iraqis and that Iraqi police officers had arrested them after the men fired at a traffic police officer.
A British military spokesman in Basra confirmed that "two U.K. military personnel" had been detained early on Monday "in a shooting incident" and that troops had used an armored fighting vehicle "to gain entry" to the police station to release them. He said that more than one vehicle had been in the area and that the police inside the station had refused to obey orders from the Interior Ministry to release the men.
The incident came a day after British forces in Basra arrested three members of the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, on suspicion of terrorism.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said the riot began Monday evening when militia members converged on the police station holding the British men, apparently hoping to seize them in order to free their three colleagues in British custody. The British spokesman said there had been 100 to 200 people in the crowd.
Ali Dabagh, a Shiite member of the National Assembly who had just emerged from a briefing with Interior Minister Bayan Jabr in Baghdad on Monday night, said that militia members had begun attacking the station with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and that British troops soon responded to defend it.
The ministry official said that British armored vehicles had fired on the station, headquarters of the major crimes unit in central Basra, and broken through its outer wall. Troops then stormed in and freed the two men, he said. There were reports of prisoners escaping, but the official denied them. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/international/m…
Yea…sure. Why do people in the colonies always think that they have some kind of choice? It's funny how prone the puppet governments are to fool themselves into thinking that they have some sort of power. America is pulling the strings puppet, you will never prosecute one of the empire's soldiers. Your masters in Washington won't let you.
Hey, wait a minute – we need imunity from murder and torture for our troops – we are the good guys.
This is non sense that americanbs continue to kill Irakis as they have killed two million Irakis.
Good news. Perhaps we will withdraw.
Yep, sounds like there are some loopholes that neocons and their Obama allies can drive a truck thorugh.
I bet Jim Jeffrey didn't see that one coming… I imagine the machinations in the Joint Chiefs offices and at State just got a little more intense. Imagine, XE without a Get Out of Jail Free card…
US GENERALS ARE WAR PIGS AND THEY WILL COME CRAWLING FOR MERCY BLACK SABBATH RULES! WE LOVE OZZY
No need for troop immunity – nor do they deserve any, after all the Iraqis these monsters slaughtered.
Maybe the fear of Iraqi court and prison system will keep them in line, or:
GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE YOU DESTROYED THEIR COUNTRY ISN'T THAT ENOUGH??? THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION YOU C*CKSUCKERS WILL LIVE IN INFAMY AS ONE OF THE GREATEST SATANS OF ALL TIME!!!
We repetedly see how the real crimminals are over and over again.The world needs to wake up starting with America.There is almost 7 billion of use and the biggest criminals are 1 persent of 7 billion we have the real power but don't realize it.America and Israel are going to drag us into WW3 against Iran,Pakistan,Afganistan,Iraq,Russia,China,North Korea and many more they can't win.India will even fight NATO you would think but thats just of the top of my head there are many more silent countrys that will join the ones I mentioned and all the other countrys America is already bombing.Bush,Obama and I think all presidents since JFK were criminals.Watch top documentarys on the net and watch The New Clinton Chronicles and you will see what and evil person he is.He lead us intowhats going on now by making laws that should have never been made.America was doing great at the time and never paid attension to what was going on around the world or in there country.Amertica has a tyranicle government and its been like this for a long time.Start reading and learn the truth that the MSM will never tell.Sad most get info from the lieing bought and paid for MSM.