Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Gen. Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari, left, is seen with a delegation of unidentified Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police officers after meeting with Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, Sunday, July 12, 2009. The General says insurgent attacks are on the decline, but predicts they could continue for three more years. (AP Photo/Tahseen Ali)From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD – The Iraqi military on Sunday predicted that insurgent attacks, though declining, could continue for a few years, raising the prospect of militant violence after the scheduled withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011.
The comments by Gen. Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari, the army chief of staff, came several hours after gunmen fatally shot a government financial officer in northern Iraq and one day after bombs in Baghdad and a village near Mosul killed 10 people.
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