U.S. forces will station in fourteen military bases after the withdrawal

A very infor­ma­tive report on Kuwaiti Al-Watan, explains that all the talks about the SOFA is a delib­er­ate pro­pa­ganda meant to shift the media atten­tion away from the main con­tent of the agree­ment which is the estab­lish­ment tem­po­rary U.S. mil­i­tary bases on the Iraqi territory.

Retired Iraqi Staff Gen­eral Al-A’busi said that the Amer­i­can forces devel­oped the for­mer Iraqi mil­i­tary air­bases to semi-permanent bases, do not nec­es­sar­ily par­tic­i­pate in the mil­i­tary com­bat oper­a­tions but it will cer­tainly pro­vide ser­vices such as AWACS intel­li­gence or aer­ial refu­el­ing, as well as emer­gency landing.

The gen­eral explains some of the con­fu­sions in the SOFA agree­ment say­ing that the agree­ment says: “the with­drawal of the com­bat sol­dier in 2011, if the secu­rity sit­u­a­tion remains sta­ble”, say­ing; The Amer­i­can def­i­n­i­tion of “com­bat sol­dier” is a sol­dier with fight­ing equip­ments who par­tic­i­pates in spe­cific fight­ing task, but a U.S. sol­dier with the same fight­ing equip­ments stands in the check­points and patrols the roads is not a “com­bat sol­dier” a “guard soldier”.

The gen­eral said that there are 14 mil­i­tary bases qual­i­fied for the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary needs such as:

The Air Force col­lege in Kirkuk, Balad base north­ern Iraq, Al-Baghdadi base, Hab­baniyah base, both in Anbar province. Al-Saouira base in Kut, and AlI­mam base in Nasiriya, two in Basra province Al-Shuaiba and Basra Airport,which is con­trolled by British forces, in Bagh­dad there are Crop­per and Camp Vic­tory, in the Bagh­dad Inter­na­tional Air­port, as well as two impor­tant bases in Diwaniyah and Hilla provinces, adding the four bases, which are now being built at the Iran bor­ders in Basra, Ama­rah, Kut, Diyala.