Το πρακτορείο Associated Press γράφει την Τετάρτη, επικαλούμενο Αμερικανούς αξιωματούχους, ότι ο Ομπάμα έχει στρέψει την προσοχή του μακριά από τις αεροπορικές επιδρομές ως άμεση επιλογή, εν μέρει γιατί υπάρχουν ελάχιστοι καθαροί στόχοι που μπορούν να χτυπήσουν οι ΗΠΑ.
Οι ίδιες πηγές τονίζουν πάντως πως ο Αμερικανός πρόεδρος δεν έχει λάβει ακόμη τις τελικές του αποφάσεις και τελικώς θα μπορούσε να εγκρίνει περιορισμένα πλήγματα εάν διαφανούν πιο καθαροί στόχοι.
H CIA και η NSA πασχίζουν να κλείσουν τα κενά και να εντοπίσουν τις κινήσεις ηγετικών προσώπων των τζιχαντιστών, περιλαμβανομένου του αρχηγού τους Αμπού Μπακρ αλ-Μπαγκντάντι....
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Iraq formally asks US to launch air strikes against rebels...
ReplyDeleteIraq has formally called on the US to launch air strikes against jihadist militants who have seized several key cities over the past week.
"We have a request from the Iraqi government for air power," confirmed top US military commander Gen Martin Dempsey in front of US senators.
Earlier the Sunni insurgents launched an attack on Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji north of Baghdad.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki earlier urged Iraqis to unite against the militants.
Government forces are battling to push back ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and its Sunni Muslim allies in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, after the militants overran the second city, Mosul, last week.
US President Barack Obama was meeting senior Congress members on Wednesday to discuss the Iraq crisis.
Ahead of the briefing Senate leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said he did not "support in any way" getting American troops involved in the Iraqi "civil war".
But Gen Dempsey told a Senate panel that it was in America's "national interest to counter [ISIS] wherever we find them".................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27905849
Iraq asked the United States to carry out airs strikes against Islamic militants on Wednesday after the insurgents temporarily took control of a key oil refinery just 155 miles north of Baghdad....
ReplyDelete"Iraq has officially asked Washington to help under the security agreement (between the two countries), and to conduct air strikes against terrorist groups," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters in Saudi Arabia.
However, Zebari said "a military approach will not be enough. We acknowledge the need for drastic political solutions".......http://www.france24.com/en/20140618-iraq-makes-official-request-usa-air-strikes-insurgents-isis-military/