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Iraq Security Forces Suffer High Desertion Rate

HeadlineJun 30, 2004

Meanwhile new Congressional report has found that the desertion rate in some units of the newly formed Iraqi security forcers has run as high as 80 percent. The report by the General Accounting Office calls into question how prepared Iraq is to handle security following the so-called handover of power. The report read “Iraqi security forces proved unready to take over security responsibility from the multinational force, as demonstrated by their collapse during April 2004.

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