The US officers told Rumsfeld that the chief threat to Iraq's stability was moving away from former members of Saddam's regime and toward international terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda.
An estimated 200,000 Iraqis have signed up with the various Iraqi security services in the last several months.
Earlier in Kuwait, Rumsfeld met briefly with prime minister Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah.
Rumsfeld's tour will also take him to Tashkent, his third visit in two years to the Uzbek capital. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry said on Saturday he also planned visits to neighboring Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.
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