Iraq general in handover warning
Senior Iraqi military chief says US forces should stay until 2020.
Published On 12 Aug 2010
Lieutenant General Babaker Zerbari, the chief of staff of Iraq’s armed forces, has said his country’s army will not be ready to assume control over security until 2020 and that US troops should stay until then.
But US officials say there is no chance the United States will deviate from its planned withdrawal of combat troops by the end of this month.
Even Iraqi military officials disagree about the country’s readiness.
Al Jazeera’s Omar al-Saleh reports from Baghdad.
Source: Al Jazeera