Commission on Security and Defence: Iraq received from Russia 4 helicopters without ammunition or we

[ltr] Commission on Security and Defence: Iraq received from Russia 4 helicopters without ammunition or weapons[/ltr]

03-11-2013

BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah
Revealed for security and defense committee for parliamentary Iraq recently received four Russian helicopters "without weapons or ammunition," pointing out that the Russian side pledged providing extensions plane in the next year. 

In the meantime, the Commission threatened the Ministry of Defense to "withhold investment budget" if it continues not to seriousness necessary to buy weapons that Iraq needs. 

To the detection of a member of the Committee for the Ministry of Defence's intention to establish a "Fund arming the Iraqi army," at a cost of up to 5% of the Ministry's budget, "considering the introduction of reinforcing file within the budget" does not suffice. " 

The confidential report, issued by the Ministry of Defense and obtained by the "long", pointed out that the ministry will be unable to pay the premiums aircraft deal the F16 and contracts for Russian arms, as well as contracts arms new if they have been approved budget for 2014, warning that the fiscal deficit is expected, which will reach 70%, would lead to stop the army-building programs until 2020. 

The report said that "the total allocated by the Ministry of Finance within the budget of the year 2014 of 10.6 trillion Iraqi dinars, while it requested budget of $ 35.7 trillion dinars." 

In this context, MP Shwan Mohammed Taha, a member of the security and defense committee parliamentary, "delivered to Iraq four Russian helicopters of the type Mika me35". 

Taha said, in a statement to the "long" yesterday, saying that "helicopters arrived without providing them with arms and ammunition," pointing out that "there is an intention to provide the helicopters with weapons and ammunition in September of next year." 

He said a member of the security and defense committee that "the deal helicopters were the result of pressure Iraq on the Russian government to deliver a quantity of weapons to cover up the suspicion of corruption in holding the arms deal," he continued asking, "Why is delivered helicopters without ammunition in a time of escalating security challenges faced by Iraq ? ". 

Shwan Taha stressed "the need to address security breaches that occur from time to time, the most important control on the border between Iraq and Syria to prevent the infiltration of terrorists into Iraqi territory."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had discussed, during his recent visit to Washington, speed up package F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters as well as aircraft march in order to be used to reduce the growing influence of al-Qaida on the Iraqi-Syrian border. 

In the meantime, criticized the governor Zamili, the other member of the Committee on Security and Defense parliamentary directed the Department of Defense's "buy luxuries without weapons and equipment," which confirmed that the purchase does not require approval of a private, warning the ministry of "withholding budget" if it continues to do so. 

He Zamili, in an interview for the "long" yesterday that "terrorists have guns monounsaturated and Nador night and daytime and wheels modern while our military does not have this equipment, although ease of purchase and do not require the approval of an American or other," and wondered, "Where you go funds and budgets of the security forces?"
The MP warned the Liberal bloc thoracic and the Ministry of Defence "of the lack of seriousness in to buy necessary weapons," waving "blocking the investment budget," which he said "most of them go into the pockets of the corrupt," strongly denied "the possibility of reducing the salaries and allowances of soldiers." 

He demanded a mandatory Department of Defense "to provide written guarantees in order to harness the funds to be allocated for the purchase of weapons," pointing out that "the American aircraft deal has not up to now, although time was in 2013." 

For his part, explains MP Abbas al-Bayati, a member of a coalition of state law, said that "the Ministry of Defense called for the establishment of a fund arming the Iraqi army because the introduction of armament within the budget has become not suffice." 

Al-Bayati said in an interview with the "long" yesterday, saying, "We have to separate the investment budget for the Department of Defense operational," adding that "reinforcing Fund budget will be from 3 to 5% of budget funds." 

And saw a member of the Commission on Security and Defence Parliamentary be "necessary attention to balancing arming the army, even if necessary to cut the bread ourselves," citing a "terms of security and will honor and cover armament contracts with both the Russian and the U.S. Despite the suffering," adding that "low budget contributes to reducing capacity. "

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