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July 22nd, 2006 at 10:01 am
Iraq struggles to provide for its troops
US resumes task in volatile region
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | July 22, 2006
WASHINGTON — US commanders this spring gave the Iraqi government the key task of supplying food and fuel to its own army, but after a few months of serious mismanagement, the United States resumed supplying Iraqi troops in the volatile Anbar Province, according to US officials.
The inability of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense to assume full responsibility for providing “life support” to its more than 100,000 troops marks a setback in the slow process of turning over greater responsibility to the Iraqi government, according to Pentagon leaders and diplomats.
The military command in Iraq confirmed that the United States had moved to resume providing necessary services in Anbar, a key stronghold of the insurgency, after Iraqi authorities proved unable to provide adequate food, pay, and housing supplies. Yet officers expressed hope that Iraqi services would improve over time.
“The coalition stepped in to provide additional assistance while the Iraqis overcame their problems,” said Lieutenant Colonel Michael Negard , a spokesman for Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, the Baghdad headquarters responsible for training Iraqi security forces.
Negard emphasized that US officials hope the help will be temporary.
“The responsibility for life support is still with the Iraqi Army in Anbar and the other provinces,” he said. “However, the Iraqis still face challenges.”
Senior US officials speaking on the condition of anonymity said the situation was worse, with many Iraqi Army supplies not arriving and others being siphoned off to the black market. One Iraqi fighting unit went days without sufficient supplies of food. Meanwhile, because Iraqi forces are still paid in cash delivered to the front, some units suffered desertions after the Iraqi government failed to deliver their salaries on time, they said.
US officials said the deficiencies were disturbing and raised serious questions about the Iraqi government’s ability to become self-sufficient. The US military’s exit strategy depends on the ability of newly trained Iraqi security forces to operate independently, they said.