ISTANBUL, Turkey (June 28) -- NATO leaders at a summit meeting in Istanbul agreed Monday to offer training to the security forces of Iraq's new interim government, which formally took power in Baghdad just hours earlier. ''They have agreed it,'' NATO spokesman James Appathurai told Reuters. The 26 NATO leaders gathered in Turkey's business capital had the final word on the deal hammered out last week by alliance ambassadors in Brussels. NATO envoys had wrangled for 24 hours over how to respond to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's request for help for his security forces, which are battling a wide-scale...
