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 PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

119 STAT. 3467

(E) Securing the delivery of pledged economic assistance from the international community and additional pledges of assistance. (F) Training Iraqi security forces and transferring additional security responsibilities to those forces and the government of Iraq. (2) Whether the Iraqis have made the compromises necessary to achieve the broad-based and sustainable political settlement that is essential for defeating the insurgency in Iraq. (3) Any specific conditions included in the April 2005 MultiNational Forces-Iraq campaign action plan (referred to in United States Government Accountability Office October 2005 report on Rebuilding Iraq: DOD Reports Should Link Economic, Governance, and Security Indicators to Conditions for Stabilizing Iraq), and any subsequent updates to that campaign plan, that must be met in order to provide for the transition of additional security responsibility to Iraqi security forces. (4) To the extent that these conditions are not covered under paragraph (3), the following should also be addressed: (A) The number of battalions of the Iraqi Armed Forces that must be able to operate independently or to take the lead in counterinsurgency operations and the defense of Iraq’s territory. (B) The number of Iraqi special police units that must be able to operate independently or to take the lead in maintaining law and order and fighting the insurgency. (C) The number of regular police that must be trained and equipped to maintain law and order. (D) The ability of Iraq’s Federal ministries and provincial and local governments to independently sustain, direct, and coordinate Iraq’s security forces. (5) The criteria to be used to evaluate progress toward meeting such conditions. (6) A plan for meeting such conditions, an assessment of the extent to which such conditions have been met, information regarding variables that could alter that plan, and the reasons for any subsequent changes to that plan.

Subtitle D—Other Matters SEC. 1231. PURCHASE OF WEAPONS OVERSEAS FOR FORCE PROTECTION PURPOSES IN COUNTRIES IN WHICH COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE ONGOING.

(a) FORCE PROTECTION PURCHASES.—Chapter 3 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 127b the following new section: ‘‘§ 127c. Purchase of weapons overseas: force protection ‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—When elements of the armed forces are engaged in ongoing military operations in a country, the Secretary of Defense may, for the purpose of protecting United States forces in that country, purchase weapons from any foreign person, foreign government, international organization, or other entity located in that country.

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