Ann Clwyd on security situation in Iraq

Ann Clwyd comments on Iraqi Prime Minister’s security assessment – she says: "I am astonished to hear this. It seems like a big dose of over-optimism. And they do not chime at all with what I have seen myself or with my conversation with the deputy prime minister just last night. He said that we should not withdraw our forces, and if we did so then al-Qaeda would be a greater threat, not only to Iraq but to the wider region too. Al-Maliki is right to say that some progress has been made, but there needs to be far more."