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I said: "Meanwhile Coalition forces continue to hand over miltary responsiblity for Iraqi forces to control independently various regions. And probably by this summer this process will be near completion."

This is actually source I was thinking about for above statement and I was wrong- it's actually 75% complete and end of summer not by summer.

"March 17 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. hopes to hand over 75 percent of Iraq to Iraqi Security Forces by the end of the summer, the second-ranking U.S. commander in Baghdad said. ``All indications are that we will make that,'' Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, said from Baghdad during a briefing televised at the Pentagon today, adding that he didn't ``want to be so precise as to put myself in a box.'' ... "
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