(RTTNews) - The visiting Pentagon chief has said that the United
States is frustrated by delays in the foreign military sales program to
equip the Iraqi security forces.
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey on Tuesday met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Iraqi counterpart Gen. Zebari Babakir and discussed about the United States' efforts to equip and train Iraqi security forces via the Office of Security Cooperation Iraq.
More than 225 U.S. troops, seven Defense Department civilians, 530 security assistance team members and more than 4,000 contracted personnel are currently in the office at the Iraqi government's invitation.
Dempsey told reporters in Baghdad that "all sides - including the U.S. Army chief of the office at the American Embassy, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen - are frustrated by delays in some aspects of the foreign military sales program."
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Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey on Tuesday met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Iraqi counterpart Gen. Zebari Babakir and discussed about the United States' efforts to equip and train Iraqi security forces via the Office of Security Cooperation Iraq.
More than 225 U.S. troops, seven Defense Department civilians, 530 security assistance team members and more than 4,000 contracted personnel are currently in the office at the Iraqi government's invitation.
Dempsey told reporters in Baghdad that "all sides - including the U.S. Army chief of the office at the American Embassy, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen - are frustrated by delays in some aspects of the foreign military sales program."
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