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July 1, 2004       Share:    

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Iraqi Security Forces Plagued by Mass Desertions

(AFP/Yahoo) Fledgling Iraqi security forces are "unready" to fight anti-government insurgents as their units remain inadequately trained, underequipped, and suffer from a desertion rate sometimes exceeding 80%, a probe by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found Tuesday.

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