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As empresa da segurança perdem o immunity no negócio de Iraq
Quinta-feira, julho 10o, 2008
Por Patrick Cockburn em Bagdade | Os forças armadas Iraqi são prováveis alvejar contratantes americanos largo-odiados da segurança quando perdem seu immunity à lei Iraqi sob um acordo novo entre os E.U. e o Iraq. ? A concessão americana principal, durante negociações prolongadas e rancorous sobre um status do acordo das forças (Sofa) que determinasse o relacionamento militar futuro entre os E.U. e o Iraq, foi concordar levantar o immunity apreciado hitherto pelos 154.000 contratantes, de quem 35.000 são homens confidenciais da segurança. “As forças Iraqi segui-los-ão com o vigour porque não são populares em Iraq,” disseram Ahmed Chalabi, político Iraqi do veteran, em uma entrevista com o Independent. Os “povos não se esqueceram sobre os Iraqis que foram matados por homens confidenciais da segurança no quadrado de Nisour.” O pessoal da segurança de Blackwater EUA é acusado de civis Iraqi da matança 17, including uma mãe e uma criança, quando abriu o fogo no quadrado em Bagdade ocidental em 16 setembro o ano passado. O ending do immunity terá conseqüências sérias para as 142.000 tropas dos E.U. em Iraq, que são altamente reliant em contratantes. O Sr. Chalabi diz que é provável que as forças e o judiciary da segurança do Iraqi sairão de sua maneira prender os homens da segurança extrangeira que quebram a lei Iraqi, que flouted assim distante. Disse também que a perda do immunity de contratantes americanos faria operações da inteligência dos E.U. mais difíceis porque as companhias confidenciais foram usadas manter as ligações com os oponentes do regime Iranian baseado em Iraq, notàvelmente o Mojahedin-e Khalq. Isto permite o governo dos E.U. de negar que tem contatos com tais grupos. O Sr. Chalabi, que retornou recentemente de Irã onde teve conversas com líderes Iranian, disse: “Os Iranians são opostos implacably ao negócio. Consecrates a presença maciça de América aqui e ameaça sua segurança. Dizem que este será um acordo da non-segurança do `' e o `não um acordo de segurança' e eles é feliz para que todos o saiba.” A hostilidade Iranian seria séria para Iraq desde que Irã jogou um papel central em mediar uma extremidade à luta entre a milícia de Mehdi Army Shia e o governo no começo desse ano. In an unexpected but important development, the negotiation of a US-Iraqi agreement, to replace the current UN mandate for US forces that is due to run out at the end of the year, is leading to a resurgence of Iraqi nationalism previously masked by Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, embarrassed the White House by saying on Monday that Iraq wants some kind of timetable for a withdrawal of American forces included in the present agreement. The national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie followed this up by saying: “We would not accept any memorandum of understanding with [the US] side that has no obvious and specific dates for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.” American officials have tried to present these demands as conditional on the effectiveness of the Iraqi security forces, which now number over half a million men. An Iraqi official supporting a US-Iraq agreement said: “It will be easier to sell it to Iraqis if it is presented as a way of getting the Americans to withdraw. We still need them. We could not cope if, hypothetically, there was an uprising in Basra, an army mutiny in Anbar or the Kurds unilaterally annexed Kirkuk.” But important Iraqi leaders have sought to outbid each other in criticising American rights under Sofa, while Iraqi supporters of the agreement have been largely mute. This suggests that the position of the Republican presidential candidate John McCain, that the US occupation should continue for many years, will soon no longer be tenable. “We should negotiate with the next administration,” said Dr Mahmoud Othman, the veteran Kurdish politician and MP. “A letter of understanding will be sufficient for now. If the agreement does not bind the next administration, why sign it? People will think it is being done to help the Republican party.” Defenders of Sofa, such as the Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, say the agreement will limit and define American rights in Iraq. The alternative is the UN mandate, under which US forces can do what they want. The negotiations have provoked a nationalist backlash among Arab Iraqis because they highlight the extent to which America will control their country in future. Have Your Say: Security firms lose immunity in Iraq deal Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Related News
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