Joint Security Station

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Joint Security Stations (English for Joint Security Station ) are military facilities of the Iraqi armed forces, police and in some cases the US forces in various districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the surrounding area. These properties were established in the course of the increase in the US troop presence in Iraq in 2007 and are intended to ensure more security in Baghdad.

The concept pursued here includes a departure from the previously operated stationing of Iraqi and American security forces in large field camps away from the various city districts to many small, partly fortress-like facilities in as many districts of the city as possible. This is to guarantee a permanent presence of the army, police and security personnel on the largest possible area. The Joint Security Stations (JSS) are based on the idea of ​​the police stations, in which cities are divided into different areas, which in turn are assigned their own police facilities. On April 12, 2007, the US military announced that 45 JSSs would be formed in Baghdad itself and another 30 in the suburbs. The combat outposts used by the US armed forces, small, remote combat posts that are mostly housed in individual houses, have in some cases already been expanded into joint security stations in the course of the troop increase.

List of Joint Security Stations (selection)

  • Sadr City
  • Zafaraniyah
  • Hurriyah
  • Ghazaliya
  • Mansour District
    • Joint Security Station Mansour in the Jamia neighborhood of Mansour district
    • JSS Torch
    • Washash
  • Mushada
  • Yusufiyah
  • JSS "Arvanitis-Sigua" in Bayji 130 miles north of Baghdad

literature

  • Matthias Rüb : "Baghdad - Washash District", in: Loyal - Magazine for Security Policy , 3/2007, pp. 24–28.