Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war Military urged to aid workers with logistics

Hillary Clinton,Iraq, Who will provide Security once DOD is out of Iraq? I expect the Body Count to go up.

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Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war

Military urged to aid workers with logistics

The Obama administration has not settled on a plan to protect and supply thousands of State Department diplomats and employees left behind in Iraq once all but a relatively few U.S. troops leave the county in a little more than a year.

In what would be the first time a large contingent of American government workers will remain in an active war zone without U.S. military protection, the State Department is urgently demanding that the Pentagon provide equipment at no cost.

The State Department also wants the Army to let it tap into the huge, billion-dollar logistics system that fed and supplied more than 100,000 combat troops at one time. So far, the Pentagon has not given the State Department an answer.

"I can't think of another time when the State Department will have been required to take over a mission of this magnitude," Grant S. Green, a member of the special Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, told The Washington Times. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

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