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No need for Iraq’s federal police in
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26.12.2012 |
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It is the duty of the provincial police to take care
of security in this area.
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December 26, 2012
KIRKUK, Iraq's border with Kurdistan region,—
Once Baghdad and Erbil agree to pull back troops
from disputed northern territories where they have
been locked in a weeks-long stand-off, security
there should be maintained by local forces and not
the federal police, provincial officials say.
“It is the duty of the provincial police to take
care of security in this area. The federal police
are to step in only when the provincial police
cannot handle an issue,” Rebwar Talabani, deputy
head of the Kirkuk provincial council, told Rudaw.
Baghdad and Erbil have been locked in a stand-off
since November, after Iraq’s Arab Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki deployed his new Dijla force into
disputed northern territories that are also claimed
by the Kurds. The autonomous Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) countered by sending in thousands
of its own Peshmerga troops.
Iraq’s Parliament speaker Osama Nujeifi recently
said that Maliki and KRG President Massoud Barzani
have reached an agreement to pull back their mutual
forces.
That has raised questions about whether Baghdad
would send in the federal police force to maintain
security, or if interior ministry troops already
present in the provinces of Diyala and Kirkuk will
take over the task.
“In our agreement with Baghdad there was no such
point as sending in the federal police. The local
police is present in those areas,” said Peshmerga
ministry spokesman Halgurd Hikmat,www.ekurd.net
who attended the negotiations in Baghdad.
Hikmat said that Erbil and Baghdad already had the
joint Golden Lion force in place to maintain
security in Kirkuk.
That force was deliberately composed as a joint unit
of Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish fighters by American
forces, which left Iraq at the end of last year,
ending an occupation that followed the 2003 US-led
invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
“It was under the American presence that the Golden
Lion was established for these areas, but Maliki
formed the Dijla forces to replace this force,” said
Talabani.
Meanwhile, Abdulhadi al-Hassani, an MP from Maliki’s
State of Law Coalition, said that, “The residents of
those areas and their local forces should be the
ones to protect the place, not any other force.”
By Nehro Muhammad - Rudaw
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