http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-iraq27.htmlBAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's top general on Sunday rejected President Bush's criticism that some Iraqi troops were unwilling to fight insurgents, saying the president had been misinformed.
Gen. Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari also said that the man who carried out the suicide attack on a U.S. base in Mosul -- in which 22 people died -- was not a member of the Iraqi security forces, as had been suggested.
A day before the Mosul attack Bush criticized the performance of Iraqi troops. ''There have been some cases where, when the heat got on, they left the battlefield,'' Bush said.
Zebari said: ''I think the president received misleading information.'' Zebari insisted none of his troops had deserted from combat. But he acknowledged that some recruits had quit after being told they would be posted to the restive city of Fallujah.
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