Reply #16: Thank you for sharing this. Recommended.

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Wondering how much coverage this report is going to get.
Here's an article from the WP -

U.S. Report on Iraqi Troops Is Mixed

By Robert Burns
Associated Press
Saturday, February 25, 2006; Page A13

The number of Iraqi army battalions judged by their American trainers to be capable of fighting insurgents without U.S. help has fallen from one to none since September, Pentagon officials said yesterday.>snip<

The report was written last week, before the bombing of a Shiite shrine and a wave of deadly reprisal attacks. It is the third in a series of reports that Congress requires from the Pentagon every three months.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/24/AR2006022401816.html