By Jill Reilly US advisers in Iraq risk assassination by troops they are trying to train, according to a classified report. Americans who are assigned to advise Baghdad’s forces could be at risk because so many units are  deeply infiltrated by either Sunni extremist informants or Shiite personnel backed by Iran, the report by United States detailed. If the US does decide to assist in moving back the the advances made by Sunni militants in northern and western Iraq over the past month, the assessment concludes that only about half of Iraq’s operational units are able to carry out the push.
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Many units are deeply infiltrated by Sunni informants or Shiite personnel
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The threat are the extremists backed by Iran, according to US officials
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Up to 300 special operations forces to deployed in the country
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