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    Post by jedi17 Mon 20 Mar 2017, 7:37 pm

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    March 20, 2017 in Politics, Security
    From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.

    Iraq PM Haider al-Abadi to meet Donald Trump

    Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is due to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday.

    A key part of the talks will be the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group in Mosul.
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    Post by jedi17 Mon 20 Mar 2017, 7:44 pm

    Abadi arrives in Washington to discuss US-Iraqi relations with Trump
    By Rudaw 15 hours ago
    US President Donald Trump and Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi.
    US President Donald Trump and Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi.
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump and administration officials will receive Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and a delegation in Washington on Monday, marking the PM’s first visit to the US capital since Trump’s inauguration in January.

    Abadi landed in the United States early Monday morning, according to Iraqi state news.

    Trump invited Abadi to Washington in November 2016 after the Iraqi PM congratulated the American president on his electoral victory, and the White House spokesperson announced in early March that the Abadi-Trump meeting would take place the week of March 20.

    The US-led international coalition and forces inside Iraq have made key gains against ISIS over the past year-and-a-half, notably clearing ISIS fighters from the eastern side and nearly half of the western side of Mosul, where ISIS leaders declared its Islamic state in 2014.

    Abadi urged calm after Trump wrote an executive order in his first week in office banning entry of Iraqi nationals into the United States for 90 days. The initial order has since been rewritten, and Iraq omitted from a new executive order affecting six other countries, which Trump has maintained is a matter of national security.

    Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president, and Abadi met each other at the Munich Security Conference last month.

    Iraq’s ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2016 opined that the new Trump administration will want to know the costs, risks, and potential rewards of further US involvement in Iraq.

    "At this moment the Iraqi administration is trying to test the waters to see what the key priorities for the US administration are," Lukman Faily told Rudaw English on the sidelines of the Sulaimani Forum earlier this month.

    "From the US perspective, they are dealing with Iraq from a legacy perspective…They want to know their investment, overall, how much rewarding it is for them."

    Abadi’s visit with the president comes just days before a US State Department summit with members and partners of the anti-ISIS coalition scheduled to take place on Thursday in Washington.
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    Post by mochasmom Mon 20 Mar 2017, 8:08 pm

    Was hoping we would hear mosul was done..maybe later this week
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    Post by jedi17 Mon 20 Mar 2017, 8:11 pm

    mochasmom wrote:Was hoping we would hear mosul was done..maybe later this week

    as i mentioned before, i think it will come from the mosque in Mosul where Baghdadi made his announcement in 2014.
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    Post by mochasmom Mon 20 Mar 2017, 8:36 pm

    Sorry, didnt see you mention that
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    Post by notazbad2000 Mon 20 Mar 2017, 8:54 pm

    Iraqi Leader, in Washington, Gets Trump’s Assurance of U.S. Support
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    President Trump and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday in Washington. Mr. Abadi said he was happy with their meeting. CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
    WASHINGTON — President Trump, who touted his opposition to the Iraq war during the 2016 campaign, welcomed Iraq’s leader to the White House on Monday, and promised to continue support for the fight against the Islamic State.
    Mr. Trump praised Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the start of their meeting for doing a “good job” and said that the United States recognized that the Iraqi soldiers who are pushing to retake the northern city of Mosul were “fighting hard.”
    Mr. Abadi later said that he was happy with the meeting and asserted that the new administration had assured him that American support would be expanded.
    “We have been given assurances that the support will not only continue but will accelerate,” he said during an appearance at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington.



    “I think this administration wants to be more engaged in fighting terrorism,” Mr. Abadi added. “I sense a difference in terms of being head-to-head with terrorism.”
    Neither American nor Iraqi officials, however, explained what economic support might be provided by the United States and the international community to help rebuild Iraqi cities that have been damaged during the conflict.
    Nor did they explain what the American role might be after Iraqi forces retake Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and evict Islamic State militants from other towns.
    There is broad recognition among Iraqi and American security experts that there will be a continued need to train Iraqi forces, and perhaps even conduct commando operations, if the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, loses its so-called caliphate because any surviving militants are expected to maintain their yearslong drumbeat of terrorist bombings.
    Mr. Trump hinted at the need for future American presence in Iraq by criticizing his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, for failing to negotiate an agreement that would enabled American forces to stay. American ground troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011, as required under a security agreement brokered in 2008 by President George W. Bush.
    “Certainly, we shouldn’t have left. We should never ever have left,” Mr. Trump said. “A vacuum was created, and we discussed what happened.”
    Mr. Abadi volunteered little on the matter, which remains a delicate issue in Iraq and, especially, with its neighbor Iran. Asked if he had been briefed on the strategy the Trump administration is working on to defeat the Islamic State, the prime minister said that “I haven’t seen a full plan.”

    James Jeffrey, a former American ambassador to Baghdad, said the coming destruction of the Islamic State, as a caliphate and fighting force, would make the administration confront difficult questions about how deeply to get involved in Iraq’s reconstruction and stabilization, and what additional political reforms might be needed to ensure that the country’s politics do not become a breeding ground for the rise of another militant group.
    “The main reason we’re engaging with Iraq is combating ISIS, in the short run,” Mr. Jeffrey said in an interview. “But underneath that is the question, ‘How are we going to relate to Iraq?’”
    That was also addressed in a letter to Mr. Trump from more than a dozen senators, including Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, who leads the Foreign Relations Committee.
    “Iraq’s challenges will not be solved when ISIS is defeated on the battlefield,” wrote the senators, who argued that bringing stability to Iraq would require more power-sharing with the Sunnis and progress in resolving tensions with the Kurds. “If Prime Minister al-Abadi commits to lead Iraq along these lines, he should have our full support in this endeavor.”
    Some senior members of Mr. Trump’s administration, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, served in Iraq.
    They joined the White House meeting along with other ranking officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and Jared Kushner, the president’s senior adviser.
    Mr. Abadi brought his foreign, defense and oil ministers. Fuad Hussein, a senior official from the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, was also present, in a gesture of comity to the Kurds.
    Mr. Abadi spoke in classical Arabic at the start of his White House meeting. After reciting a section from the Quran, he stressed the desire for more cooperation with the United States.
    But the Iraqi prime minister, who lived in exile in Britain during Saddam Hussein’s years in power, switched to fluent English in his appearance at the Institute of Peace, where he sought to assure his audience that Iraq would not be unduly influenced by Iran.
    “Iraq is not under the influence of any other country,” he said. “We are looking after our own interests.”
    An unintended moment of levity came when the Iraqi leader was asked about proposals that Nineveh Province be turned into a semiautonomous region after Mosul is retaken. The idea has been promoted by province’s former governor, but the notion of giving that degree of autonomy to a largely Sunni but ethnically diverse region has drawn opposition from Shiite-led Baghdad.
    “We have to build bridges with others and work with others to be more secure,” he said. “Otherwise, what do you do? You build walls.”
    The room erupted into laughter, and Mr. Abadi grinned, as well.
    Iraq’s future will be on the agenda again this week when Mr. Tillerson convenes a 68-nation gathering of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State. Mr. Abadi is staying in Washington to attend that session.
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    Post by sassy Mon 20 Mar 2017, 9:48 pm

    seems like things went well with their meeting today! thumbs
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