12.1 |
Security Sector Reform
Iraq’s
security structures and policy, diplomatic and international
relations, economic
policy and
investments in infrastructure”. It had been drafted by an Iraqi and
MNF
working
group that included UK advisers. Section 9.3 details the political
elements of
the Strategy.
569.
The Strategy
was approved with minor amendments. It was agreed that it
should
proceed to
a Ministerial discussion on 29 July and to Prime Minister Allawi on
5 August.
The
intention was that “the Strategy should be published shortly
afterwards” but the
timetable
might slip given Dr Allawi’s overseas
commitments.
570.
Mr Chaplin
wrote that “detailed work” on the chapter regarding national
security
institutions
was ongoing and, in particular, a “troops to task study” led by MNF
had
“concluded
that a significant increase in the planned number of conventional
police,
Border
Police and National Guard is required”. He confirmed that Prime
Minister Allawi,
Defence
Minister Hazem Shalan al‑Khuzaei and Interior Minister Falah Haasan
al‑Naqib
had been
told about that but he did not know their reaction. Mr Chaplin
understood
that the
revised ISF structure, including the additional numbers of troops
and police
recommended,
would create a US$2.8bn shortfall and that Lt Gen Petraeus
had
approached
Ambassador John Negroponte (who had replaced Ambassador
Bremer
as US
Ambassador to Iraq) on 25 July to ask that these funds were
found.
The US
funded SSR tasks through two funding streams:
•
The Iraq
Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) was the largest source of
US
reconstruction
funding, comprising US$20.86bn made available through
two
appropriations,
IRRF1 and IRRF2.512
US$4.94bn
of IRRF2 funds were allocated to
security
and law enforcement. In addition to that, US$2.31 billion was
allocated to
“justice,
public safety infrastructure, and civil society”.
•
The Iraq
Security Forces Fund (ISFF) was created in May 2005 and ran
until
June 2009.513
It made
available US$18.04bn to “train, equip, and maintain
all
elements of
the Iraqi Security Forces, including the Iraqi Army, Navy, Air
Force,
Special
Operations Forces; Iraqi police forces; special task forces; the
Iraqi
Intelligence
Agency; and border security forces.” That fund was administered by
the
DoD through
MNSTC‑I.514
ISFF
funding is shown in Table 4.515
512
Office of
the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 30 July
2009, ‘Report to Congress’.
513
Letter
SIGIR to Commanding General, US Forces‑Iraq, 23 April 2010, ‘Most
Iraq Security Forces Fund
Appropriations
have been Obligated’.
514
Office of
the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 30 July
2009, ‘Report to Congress’.
515
Letter
SIGIR to Commanding General, US Forces‑Iraq, 23 April 2010, ‘Most
Iraq Security Forces Fund
Appropriations
have been Obligated’.
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