The Iraqi Navy rebound
Coalition training, dollars turn Iraq’s laid up Navy into one of the most modern in the region, soon solely liable for protecting vital oil exports.BAGHDAD - At the end of 2011, when U.S. forces are scheduled to be finally withdrawn, Iraq’s Navy will take sole responsibility for protecting the two oil terminals that in October pumped out $107 million dollars a day.
Crude exports are only expected to increase, if the terminals remain safe, a task for the force that for two decades was merely armed small boats.
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