European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and stripes june 2007 report blasts Progress of Iraq forces by Leo Shane Iii stars and stripes Washington the iraqi military and police Are still an uneven and inadequate Security Force despite years of train ing and More than billion in fund according to a report released by con Gress on the bipartisan a five month investigation by members of the House armed services blamed poor plan Ning by the military As Well As corruption and confusion among iraqi govern ment officials for a poorly functioning lawmakers from both parties said they have seen Progress made in some areas the Security forces total More than and training programs and facilities Are improving but they labelled the find Ings a major unfortunately the planning for this mis Sion was poor and has led to a lot of set said Marty chairman of the committees investigations so now these forces Are no where near ready to operate independently to secure the among other the study says not enough emphasis has been placed on training and monitoring iraqi police forc Labelling them operationally ineffective and riddled with corruption and Sec tarian it notes that coalition officials have shifted their priorities in recent months from transferring Security to the iraqi forces to instead simply working to quell mounting and says that Lack of focus is a rep Todd called the Analy Sis a mixed one that defense officials need to take seriously if they expect further there Are iraqis who Are making sacrifices to try and make this he were still not at a place where we can pull out of the but this does not say were Arent making any the report lists 40 recommendations for ways to improve the but does not hint at a timeline for when iraqi troops will be Able to completely take Over Security duties from and coalition but it does say the forces still suffer from sectarian influences and militia infill and that iraqi armed forces will not be Able to take on the counterinsurgency Mission until they receive additional equipment or the level of violence sub plans to Transfer logistics responsibility to iraqi units next year Likely will have Little Impact on the number of troops in the the study lawmakers also blasted the defense department for failing to develop adequate methods to track Progress with the Security forces and for delaying and withholding information for the defense officials had no comment on the the department is expected to Issue a formal response to the study within 30 the full report is available online at email Leo Shane at  deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the Mili Tarys the a count is three higher than the defense departments last updated tuesday at 10 the British military has re ported 153 deaths 33 18 20 bulgar 13 11 Al five Slova four three two each and South one death since the Start of military operations in service members have been wounded in hostile according to the defense depart ments weekly the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military army Eric died sunday at Lan Stuhl regional medical of wounds suffered from Small arms fire june 21 in Bay i assigned to the 1st Battal Parachute infantry 3rd brigade combat 82nd airborne Michael Mont Honolulu died Friday of injuries from a it incident assigned a soft Forward support Bat 2nd brigade combat cavalry Henry Byrd died Sun assigned to the 1st 30th infantry 2nd Bri Gade combat 3rd infantry fort army William Phil died saturday in Taji of wounds from indirect fire assigned to the 2nd 227th Avia Tion air cavalry Bri 1st cavalry fort army Dominic Rod Klamath died Friday in Baghdad of injuries sustained from a noncom Bat incident assigned to the 4th 9th cavalry regi 2nd brigade combat 1st cavalry fort four soldiers died saturday in Taji when an explosive detonated near their killed were army 1st Daniel rior army sgt Joel army Jimy wills army Derek Cal Oklahoma All were assigned to the 2nd 8th cavalry regi 1st brigade combat 1st cavalry fort army Carter Gam ble died sunday in Suraiya from Small arms fire assigned to the 1st 15th infantry regi 3rd brigade combat 3rd infantry fort three soldiers died saturday of wounds from an explosive and Small arms fire in killed were army staff Michael Moody army Chris army fat Shane Stin All were assigned to the 2nd 69th Armor regi 3rd brigade combat 3rd infantry i q we emf iraqis gather around a car that was hit by Small arms fire in the shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on eyewitnesses claimed a military patrol opened fire after getting stuck in a traffic but the military offered a different Karim blast hits shiite kills 14 by Bassem Mroue the associated press Baghdad a car bomb exploded near a Busy Square in a predominantly shiite area in Northern Baghdad on wednes killing at least 14 people and wounding police officials the explosion occurred about about 90 minutes be fore a nightly curfew As Many people were out doing errands and buying ice Cream on the Square in according to the who spoke on condition of anonymity because of Security the 14 killed and 22 wounded included women and the officials adding that the Glass was shattered in shops sell ing soft drinks and ice Cream and other Kaz Miyah is the site of Bagh dads holiest shiite Muslim which holds the remains of the Imam Moussa Kadhim and his two of the 12 major shiite but the blast occurred about a half mile away from the it was the second blast to strike the neighbourhood in three two simultaneous car bomb explosions struck on june killing at least seven people and wound ing nearly Marine killed in Anbar province fight Baghdad a Marine was killed in combat in Iraq Western Anbar prov the military said wednes the Marine was assigned to multinational and died the military said in a the victims name was with held pending family not Ifica from the associated press Roadside bombs killed five policemen North of Baghdad and an other five civilians in the police drive by shootings killed one Man and injured six others in and at least three rockets or mortars targeted the heavily guarded Green zone in the capitals shiite neighbor Hood of Sadr two people were killed in separate cars enveloped in a barrage of to video showed blood splattered across the one of which was both had multiple Bullet holes in their dozens of residents swarmed at the and hauled the Bod ies out of the witnesses at the scene who did not give their names told a television news the men had been shot by Ameri can who were stuck in a traffic Jam and opened fire on cars around but the multary said four or five men armed with ak47 assault rifles engaged an Ameri can military police and a gun Battle one suspected insurgent was the Mili tary said in an email sent to the associated it did not explain the discrepancy with wit Ness also a leading sunni politician suggested that the sunni minister of culture might be allowed to resign and leave the country to ease sectarian tensions arising from allegations that he was behind a 2005 assassination attempt against another whose two sons died in the a warrant has been issued for the arrest of culture minister Asad Kama who has gone into sunni politicians claim the allegation is part of a Campaign by the shiite Domi rated government to marginalize sunni political