The United States has spent more than $ 20 billion on Iraqi security forces

The United States has spent more than $ 20 billion on Iraqi security forces



Although the United States remains investments Iraqi security forces are corrupt, where Iraqis accuse members of these forces of abusing their powers. The experiments were Khaled al-Mashhadani, with Iraqi security forces when they stormed his house bad

They destroyed furniture and set fire to his garden and stole 40 thousand dollars in cash with some of the gold coins that were kept in the house.

Khaled live at a distance of ten miles from Taji prison, which launched a raid by gunmen late July. During the weeks that followed the raid, security forces searched the area for the escaped prisoners and their accomplices.

Khalid said the alleged theft and destruction occurred during the inspection process where his family were not in the house 'I could not do anything then, you see devastating to my house and Otned'. Khaled is one of many Iraqis suffered from the lack of the Secretariat of the Iraqi security forces.

The United States has spent tens of billions of U.S. dollars through its presence in Iraq, which is trying to develop a competent security force that can achieve and sustain stability. But ten years after the U.S. invasion, Iraqis say they have received a security force is not only able to achieve security, but also prone to corruption and extortion.

He says Hamid Obeid Mutlaq, a member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary 'security forces today represent a particular failure. We have a million and a half member of our security forces, but they are not qualified nor carry out the law and respect human rights not only believe the use of force '.

After years of relative calm, violence erupted in Iraq, and reached levels not witnessed since 2008. During the current year, five of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives for reasons of war, and the death rate rose in July for up to a thousand people were killed in this month alone.

Among all the regions affected by the growing violence, Baghdad had more areas that have suffered from it as a regular bombings despite the many checkpoints deployed in the city.

He says one of the soldiers declined to be named 'The main problem in our security forces is that we lack effective devices to detect explosives. An unknown enemy and we need tools to quickly detect. Not receive any support from our government will continue if there is no bombings detectors'.

During the reconstruction cost of 60 billion dollars, the United States has invested 20.19 billion dollars in funding Iraqi security forces in addition to the other 1.31 billion in international narcotics control and law enforcement. As American soldiers spent long hours in direct training and guidance in order to help in the development of Iraqi security forces.

And Iraqi security forces suffered, which includes the police, the army and the relevant institutions, and through the presence of the Americans of the same problems experienced by today, but some Iraqis say that the situation was little better under American supervision.

Despite the fact that the de-Baathification program - which ban on members of Saddam's regime to participate in the new government - may prevent a number of qualified military personnel to join the new army, was among the Americans put people in many prominent positions, according to Iraqi security expert.

And shows a special security adviser working in the Iraqi army during Saddam's rule by saying that 'The good thing in the presence of the Americans here is that they fled good intelligence about terrorists, the security situation has improved because of it.'

Since the U.S. forces left Iraq by the end of 2011, exacerbated the problems that existed within the security forces, such as corruption, extortion, and have become much worse than it was.

After the security forces destroyed Dar Khalid, returned to the village and arrested his brother with 200 people suspected of involvement in the escape from prison.

He accused his brother and cousin of allowing al-Qaeda militants using their homes as bases for departure, and brought military explosives experts to the demolition of their homes.

In defense of his brother and cousin, said Khaled al Qaeda-linked militants who - before the arrest of his brother and cousin, and the demolition of their homes - the killing of three people from his family 'how al-Qaeda support after he killed your family?'.

After the release of those arrested with Khalid's brother, said the prison guards were tortured his brother and hang them upside down and use their power to force him to confess.

When Khalid number of friends in the army advised him that the best option is to pay $ 10 thousand dollars to the authorities for the release of his brother, but he can not collect this amount after it was looted authorities his home and stole his savings, and settled it to pay 3 thousand dollars for prison officials in order to lighten the torture of his brother .

Khaled says that security officials in Diyala today jointly charged with his brother in a terrorist act there. Khalid divides that his brother did not visit the Diyala never in his life, and adds that he did not stay in front of him nothing to do but to appeal to international courts.

Khaled continues saying that men dressed in police uniforms and carrying equipment government recently came to the village and took six of his cousins ​​and then killed them.

For their part, security officials said that the attacks carried out by criminals wearing military uniforms.

Khalid said he did not think to leave the country, even in the worst days of violence in Iraq, but after what happened to him and his family in recent months, it seeks today to get asylum in the United Arab Emirates.

He adds that he feared that security forces carried out sectarian agenda against Sunnis in Iraq, 'I think that the current government had planned to empty Iraq of the year, and this is what is happening today.

Iraq is no longer a national, I threatened to arrest and murder, and I do not have what I'm doing, why stay here?

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