LONDON - Iraq (news - web sites)'s interim President Ghazi al-Yawer said in an interview broadcast Monday that the U.S.-led coalition was wrong to dismantle the Iraqi security forces.
"Definitely dissolving the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior was a big mistake at that time," al-Yawer told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
"We could have screened people out instead of screening them in and this could have saved us a lot of hassle and problems," he said. The BBC said it spoke to al-Yawer in London, where he was briefly stopping after a visit to the United States.
Critics of the U.S.-led invasion say the decision to disband the 400,000-strong Iraqi army and to purge the state of members of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Baath party has contributed to chaos and helped fuel insurgency in post-war Iraq
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