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US Defense Secretary arrives in Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-07-28 17:19

TALIL: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Tuesday in southern Iraq to get a firsthand look at the future of the US military mission in Iraq.

US Defense Secretary arrives in Iraq
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates attends a news conference at the US embassy in Amman July 27, 2009. [Agencies]
 

Gates flew from Amman, Jordan, to a command post in southern Iraq where US troops are serving mainly as advisers to Iraqi forces. The advisory unit in Talil is a prototype for US forces as they shift from front-line combat to support roles.

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While in Iraq, Gates will be meeting with political leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Last week, al-Maliki met in Washington with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and senior lawmakers.

Gates is also expected to visit Iraq's restive Kurdish region, where challengers made a surprisingly strong showing in regional elections over the weekend.

Kurds were united in their hard line in disputes with Iraq's Arabs over oil-rich territory, which threaten to erupt into new violence even as the US military prepares to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011.

Official results from Saturday's vote for a regional president and 111-seat parliament were not expected until later this week. But the opposition group called Gorran - Kurdish for "Change" - said early projections showed it had made major inroads in the parliament with a win in the city of Sulaimaniyah.

Last week, Obama pressed al-Maliki to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups.

US officials, while praising improvement in Iraqi security forces, remain deeply concerned that al-Maliki's Shiite Muslim-dominated government has been unable or unwilling to reconcile with the country's minority Sunni Muslims and Kurds. The Sunnis had run Iraq until the US ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and are still smarting over their loss of power in politics, the economy and military.

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