The more Iraqi forces in Baghdad fighting for their own country, the better.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A Kurdish army brigade in northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training as it readies for deployment in the latest Baghdad security operation and is expected to take on the capital's Mehdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.
Meanwhile, three Iraqi generals told The Associated Press that the Iraqi commander who will lead the overall Baghdad security mission was the government's second choice and only got the job after the U.S. military objected to the first officer named to the post by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
"We will head to Baghdad soon," said Brig. Gen. Nazir Assem Korran, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division of the Iraqi army.
"We have 3,000 soldiers who are currently undergoing intensive training especially in urban combat and how the army should act inside a city."
Korran, in the Kurdish northern city of Irbil, said he did not know how the operation would unfold, but said the Defense Ministry in Baghdad had asked his brigade to take part in the security operation along with thousands of other Iraqi and U.S. troops."
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