TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ARTHUR MACMILLAN

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ARTHUR MACMILLAN A US army sergeant gives a briefing to US troops, Iraqi policemen, soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters prior to conducting a combined security force patrols in Rizgari, a village four kms southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on February 25, 2010. The fate of a US-backed security force comprising Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's tense north is to be decided after the upcoming elections, only two months after it was set up to avert a civil war. AFP PHOTO/ARTHUR MACMILLAN (Photo credit should read ARTHUR MACMILLAN/AFP via Getty Images)