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May 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The program originally envisioned 350 American law enforcement officers to be sent to Iraq as training advisors, but the number was quickly scaled down to 190 and then to 100.
The latest restructuring calls for 50 advisers, but most experts and even some State Department officials, say the whole program may be canceled by the end of 2012.
The training program, which has cost American taxpayers USD 500 million since its beginning in October, reflects a costly miscalculation on the part of American officials, who did not count on the Iraqi government to assert the country’s sovereignty so aggressively.
Last month, many Iraqi police officials who had been participating in the program refused to attend training seminars and PowerPoint presentations given by the Americans, saying they saw little benefit from the sessions.
Last year, prior to the withdrawal of the US military from Iraq, the US State Department planned a large expansion of its presence in the country by doubling the size of the US Embassy staff to nearly 16,000 people.
Since the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, the US government has spent nearly 8 billion dollars training the Iraqi police. The program was first under the State Department, but it was transferred to the Department of Defense in 2004 as the insecurity intensified.
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