Washington: Baghdad refused to help when the Peshmerga have warned of suspicious movement in Mosul

Washington: Baghdad refused to help when the Peshmerga have warned of suspicious movement in Mosul


BAGHDAD / long-Presse


Revealed a U.S. official during a hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress, that the Iraqi government has failed to deal properly with a clear warning and the part the United States on militants organize Daash who were massing their forces west of Mosul, stressing that Baghdad had received this information three days before the attack in June which ended with the full grip on the province, which was based on the U.S. administration officials in response to information and political leaders of Nineveh.

According to a report published in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, said Brett Mcgork Assistant Undersecretary of the U.S. Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, during a hearing on Wednesday, in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress to discuss the escalation of threats Daash "during meetings with local officials from Mosul However officials as a response dated 7 June, we received early signs that al Daash began more than many of his troops from Syria to Iraq with Thacidha to the west of Mosul. "
Mcgork revealed that he got the approval of leaders in response to the publication of the Peshmerga forces to counter the threat against sudden forces Daash, However, "said the Baghdad government did not respond in the same rush and did not agree on the urgent deployment of Peshmerga forces." He said Iraqi commanders have promised to send nine brigades to Mosul, the U.S. response to the warnings, but with that "these forces as confirmed, did not come at the right time."
The Mkourk has spent the past few weeks in Iraq, described the organization Daash as "integrated army" and that he is not only a terrorist organization, indicating that the worst of al-Qaeda.
He Mkourk "The Daash organization seeks to establish a government through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, and now of Syria and Iraq.
But he also said, that there are "serious risks in taking military action, without the availability of accurate perception of what is happening on the ground" in response to accusations that there is no U.S. air base to the Iraqi army.
"Since that time, developed the United States absorbed the situation through the information gathered by the networks organizing Daash in Iraq and Syria, and now we have a clearer picture of military assistance to Iraq if the decision of President Obama's decision to do so," adding that the U.S. administration is still considering the request Baghdad to provide air base.
Mcgork said that since the control of armed extremists on the city of Mosul in June reconnaissance missions, the United States Air over Iraq has increased to nearly 50 sorties per day after it was sorties at a rate of one per month.
The Pentagon said that 20 military adviser extra has been sent recently to Iraq, where increased the number of military personnel Americans who are in Iraq to 825 component, said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Steve Warren, he currently resides in Iraq 90 advisers working with the Iraqi military forces to assess the abilities of combat with commissioning 160 U.S. last to carry out joint operations centers in each of the Erbil and Baghdad.
The Americana parliamentarians from both Republican and Democratic parties, expressed dismay that the United States did not provide enough to help Iraqi forces and provide faster aid to Syrian factions that are fighting extremists.
For his part, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in Congress, Republican Senator Ed Royce that the Obama administration had rejected repeated requests from the Iraqi government to air strikes by aircraft march, and which he said that the Iraqi leaders filed such requests since last August.
Mcgork explained that the United States has received a formal request from Iraq for the attribution of these aircraft since the month of May, and added that the United States continues to study the possibility of directing air strikes by aircraft march in Iraq.
An official with the foreign policy in the Pentagon Elisa Slotkn, in response to the Committee's inquiry about the assessments made on the Iraqi armed forces on the ground, that there is "some military units seem empowered too," so that they can help the United States in its air strikes if the face of President Obama to take this action .
However, both Mcgork and Slotkn, male attribution that the military alone, he can not handle a crisis that instability in Iraq was enough, and that the formation of a new government in Iraq will serve as a key factor for the scalable power of organizing Daash.

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