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IRAQ ASKS U.N. TO LET U.S.-LED FORCE REMAIN:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iraq has asked the U.N. Security Council to let a U.S.-led multinational force remain in Iraq, acknowledging it was as yet unable to assure its own security.
The request came in a letter from Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari circulated at the United Nations on Wednesday.
“As we stand now, our country continues to face an armed insurgency, which still includes foreign elements opposed to Iraq’s transition to democratic rule,” Zebari said in the letter to Danish Ambassador Ellen Loj, the Security Council president for May.
Iraq is asking the U.S.-led forces to stay. That takes the steam out of some people’s charge that the U.S. is in Iraq as an occupier.
