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"We are resurfacing roads, putting up solar-powered street lamps...restoring services," Colonel Ahmed Khalifa, commander of the 6th Iraqi Army Engineers, told Reuters. "We are saying, 'We're not here just to fight,'" he said, following a training session in which U.S. army engineers taught Iraqi soldiers how to mix concrete at an Iraqi base in Baghdad. While the bulk of Iraq's much-needed reconstruction is done by private contractors, the Iraqi army is increasingly called in to do post-conflict stabilizing work: patching up buildings, smoothing out bomb craters, sweeping mines and restoring power. That presents a challenge since most Iraqi army recruits lack such skills and, although Iraq has thousands of skilled engineers, not many are available or willing to train soldiers. U.S. army engineers have stepped in to help plug the gap. With troops due to pull combat out of Iraqi cities by the end of June, ahead of an end to combat operations in August 31 2010, the focus of the U.S. military mission is shifting even more toward training and equipping Iraqi forces to take over. In the past, that has meant training recruits to shoot, conduct raids and foil bomb plots -- key skills if Iraq is to quell an insurgency that is weakened but undefeated. Now it also means training their Iraqi counterparts how to do things like fix burst sewage pipes. "These stability type operations, providing generators to communities, say, gives a sense of normality and hope," said Brigadier-General Owen Monconduit, commander of 225th Engineers. U.S. military commanders have long seen restoring shattered basic services in Iraq as an important weapon against militants. As the violence that has gripped Iraq since the 2003 invasion appears to subside, more Baghdad residents complain about their lack of electricity than their fear of militiamen. Monconduit's engineers from the Louisiana National Guard are racing to train Iraqi army engineers in carpentry and masonry. Some of them have first hand experience of emergency efforts to bring order to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Iraqis are frustrated at the slow pace of reconstruction and some fear new bloodshed if efforts are not made to speed it up. "This is still a time of war: services like electricity and water are ruined. The army must step in to build," said Khalifa. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn also on reuters Microsoft and Google are among Barron's top picks Blog: Wildlife, water replacing oil and cattle in Texas? 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