NATO opens elite college to train Iraqis

[ECH1969]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - NATO's top brass on Tuesday opened a long-awaited training academy for the Iraqi military that the alliance say will significantly increase its role in the country.

"This center makes and marks a significant step toward a more secure Iraq," NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said after hoisting a NATO flag over the alliance's training mission headquarters.

"We are doing in Iraq at the moment, what NATO does best, which is leadership training," he said. However, he suggested the training mission could be widened at some point, to include paramilitary police as well as other military police officers, possibly in a joint mission involving the European Union.

NATO officials likened the college to West Point or to Britain's military school at Sandhurst.

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I never heard of Sandhurst.

[merwin]

1. School of americas in Iraq?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Lesson #1: Duck and Cover

Lesson #2: Run like hell

[CHIMO]

3. Lesson #3

The Middle East is not located in the North Atlantic.

[Massacure]

4. Lesson #4 - Vietnam.

Oh wait, never mind. George was AWOL.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Sandhurst has been the training college for Army officers since 1800

(and an even older artillery college was also merged into it). As well as training all British army officers, it has also trained various notable overseas personalities from British colonies or allies, such as King Hussein of Jordan, and Idi Amin.

[MildyRules]

6. West Point has been the same (for the US)

since 1802.