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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hosheyar Zebari expects further bombings as US Forces are preparing to withdraw from the country. He stressed that preparing Iraqi Army to take up responsibility by his own is an urgent matter as he said noting that there are some imminent security challenges ahead of crucial deadlines.
“As we get closer to June or July when US Forces are going to withdraw, from population centers, from cities to barracks outside, according to the agreement of troops withdrawal we signed at the end of year, the adversaries, the insurgents and some remnant cells of al-Qaeda will try to press on their case,\" Zebari told Reuters.
He pointed as well to the urgency for Iraq to get armed in order to face expected attacks. This need coincides with oil prices drop which means Iraq will not be in a position to rely mainly on expensive U.S. weapon deliveries. Iraq will need to buy arms from traditional suppliers like Russia, China, or France, he said.
“We need to do some preventive actions not to allow that to be a phenomenon and the only way to do that, we need more resources, financial resources, to strengthen our intelligence services, intelligence gathering to penetrate and break down these remaining networks. That was the level of discussions”, he added.
Zebari also referred to some recent bombings might have occurred
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