The Guardian: Washington talks about "flexibility" may lead to increase troops in Iraq
Translation term
Pentagon spokesman said there was no more of the U.S. intervention in Iraq, while the Iraqi ambassador to renew Washington's appeal for air strikes.
While pushing the United States toward a new government has rejected military intervention Kalkiem air strikes, The task of the U.S. military official in Baghdad specific and fixed and does not change a protection of the U.S. Embassy and the rest of the Americans working in the country, and assess the threat of an Islamic state and the performance of the Iraqi army, and report the next steps on Pentagon to take to help Iraq in its crisis.
But unofficially, the Pentagon has made it clear that the number of troops in Iraq is likely to increase under President Obama ordered after the takeover forces of the Islamic State on Sunni areas of the country.
A day after the declaration of the Pentagon and the arrival of 300 combatant troops to Iraq to protect the U.S. Embassy, said the press secretary of the Embassy of Admiral John Kirby that President Obama needs to be "flexible" to guess the number of special forces and marines, etc., required for the task you want to implement. Kirby says, "the job fixed and will not change, some numbers have been added in the area of security assistance." And added, "I think the general commander of the troops and the military leadership expect a certain amount of flexibility about how to manage the resources available to us."
Critics say the flexibility to take the form of military intervention deep and slow, where it says Statistics provided by Kirby on Tuesday that 120 of the 300 special forces advisers authorized military plans for the defense of Baghdad, have not yet reached. Among their duties to inform the Pentagon the end of this month, the role that the United States must be assumed by the response to what he described as Kirby continuing threat to Baghdad.
In fact, the U.S. aircraft deployed in the skies of Baghdad, and the additional force sent to protect the embassy, accompanied by Apache helicopters offensive that have been added to the drones already in place and being implemented daily 35 mission over the areas where there are fighters of the Islamic state, but it is not the aircraft requested by the Iraqi government . For his part, reiterated Luqman Alfeli Iraq's ambassador in Washington, his appeal for the use of American air power against jihadi militants. A repeat request Alfeli addition to the intransigence of Baghdad, Obama will be forced to resort to the opponents and rivals the United States, such as Iran, Syria and Russia to take full charge, where the Daily Beast reported that Russian aircraft Suv -25 ready to fly over the skies of Iraq.
When asked about the Iran and Russia fill the void left by the United States, said Kirby said that "Iraq is a sovereign country and has an independent government has the right to speak with whomever they want in the field discuss the status of the security .. For our part, we continue to urge all states concerned and interested with respect any actions and decisions taken, and you want that does not help to inflame sectarian tension in Iraq. "
Since it began its march of the Islamic State in Iraq, Obama administration officials have warned that the "Americanization" of the reaction of the Iraqi cause in the absence of Iraqi political leadership that will include disaffected Sunnis.
Obama administration were not explicitly want to do with air strikes as a condition for the election of a new government, because they do not want to take responsibility for structuring a new Iraqi authority or to be seen as the focus of a new government. Kirby says he does not want to see "any effect of these limited tasks." These words, the Kirby has denied accurately the effect of this task on subsequent missions, whether on the ground or in the air.
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Translation term
Pentagon spokesman said there was no more of the U.S. intervention in Iraq, while the Iraqi ambassador to renew Washington's appeal for air strikes.
While pushing the United States toward a new government has rejected military intervention Kalkiem air strikes, The task of the U.S. military official in Baghdad specific and fixed and does not change a protection of the U.S. Embassy and the rest of the Americans working in the country, and assess the threat of an Islamic state and the performance of the Iraqi army, and report the next steps on Pentagon to take to help Iraq in its crisis.
But unofficially, the Pentagon has made it clear that the number of troops in Iraq is likely to increase under President Obama ordered after the takeover forces of the Islamic State on Sunni areas of the country.
A day after the declaration of the Pentagon and the arrival of 300 combatant troops to Iraq to protect the U.S. Embassy, said the press secretary of the Embassy of Admiral John Kirby that President Obama needs to be "flexible" to guess the number of special forces and marines, etc., required for the task you want to implement. Kirby says, "the job fixed and will not change, some numbers have been added in the area of security assistance." And added, "I think the general commander of the troops and the military leadership expect a certain amount of flexibility about how to manage the resources available to us."
Critics say the flexibility to take the form of military intervention deep and slow, where it says Statistics provided by Kirby on Tuesday that 120 of the 300 special forces advisers authorized military plans for the defense of Baghdad, have not yet reached. Among their duties to inform the Pentagon the end of this month, the role that the United States must be assumed by the response to what he described as Kirby continuing threat to Baghdad.
In fact, the U.S. aircraft deployed in the skies of Baghdad, and the additional force sent to protect the embassy, accompanied by Apache helicopters offensive that have been added to the drones already in place and being implemented daily 35 mission over the areas where there are fighters of the Islamic state, but it is not the aircraft requested by the Iraqi government . For his part, reiterated Luqman Alfeli Iraq's ambassador in Washington, his appeal for the use of American air power against jihadi militants. A repeat request Alfeli addition to the intransigence of Baghdad, Obama will be forced to resort to the opponents and rivals the United States, such as Iran, Syria and Russia to take full charge, where the Daily Beast reported that Russian aircraft Suv -25 ready to fly over the skies of Iraq.
When asked about the Iran and Russia fill the void left by the United States, said Kirby said that "Iraq is a sovereign country and has an independent government has the right to speak with whomever they want in the field discuss the status of the security .. For our part, we continue to urge all states concerned and interested with respect any actions and decisions taken, and you want that does not help to inflame sectarian tension in Iraq. "
Since it began its march of the Islamic State in Iraq, Obama administration officials have warned that the "Americanization" of the reaction of the Iraqi cause in the absence of Iraqi political leadership that will include disaffected Sunnis.
Obama administration were not explicitly want to do with air strikes as a condition for the election of a new government, because they do not want to take responsibility for structuring a new Iraqi authority or to be seen as the focus of a new government. Kirby says he does not want to see "any effect of these limited tasks." These words, the Kirby has denied accurately the effect of this task on subsequent missions, whether on the ground or in the air.
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