Wednesday, June 25, 2014

US confirms forces in Iraq begin assessments.- U.S. is flying up to 35 reconnaissance missions over Iraq per day to gain intelligence

By Michael Hernandez, WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that 40 U.S. special forces personnel already in Iraq have begun work to assess Iraqi forces while an additional 90 U.S. personnel have arrived in the country to begin setting up a joint operations center in Baghdad.
“There are sort of phases here,” John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Tuesday. “The first phase is assessment, and standing up the joint operations center is a key part of that.”
An estimated 50 U.S. personnel will join the 90 others to help set up the joint center in the coming days, bringing the total number of all U.S. advisers and special forces in Iraq to 180.

U.S. President Barack Obama had announced on Thursday that up to 300 U.S. personnel would be deployed to the country to assist Iraqi forces in their effort to put down the insurgency led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The assessment teams will help the U.S. to determine how many additional U.S. adviser teams should be sent, and where they will go.

Kirby confirmed that the U.S. is flying up to 35 reconnaissance missions over Iraq per day to gain intelligence on Iraq's security situation, and said that the intelligence gathered would assist the U.S. assessment teams.
www.aa.com.tr/en
25/6/14
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« Nous avons commencé à déployer de premières équipes d'évaluation », a indiqué le porte-parole du Pentagone, le contre-amiral John Kirby, ajoutant que près de 40 militaires sur les quelque 300 conseillers que Washington a promis d'envoyer « avaient commencé leur nouvelle mission ».
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  1. Cheney slams ‘wrong’ U.S. direction in Iraq...

    Former vice-president Dick Cheney, an architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, defended Tuesday his choices at the time, and slammed the current U.S. course as opening the door to insurgents, according to Agence France-Presse.

    “This administration is taking exactly the opposite direction from which we ought to be headed,” Cheney stressed.

    Obama never meant to leave troops in Iraq, Cheney said adding that his decision to withdraw led to the current instability.

    “The president did not want to have, I don’t believe, any stay-behind force in Iraq. I don’t think it was consistent with the campaign he’d run when he campaigned against our forces in Iraq and promised to bring them all out during the course of the campaign,” Cheney said during an interview with the American television channel PBS.

    Cheney’s statements came as the first of up to 300 U.S. military advisers began their mission in Baghdad to help the Iraqi army.

    The Pentagon said the American troops were not taking on a combat role..............http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/06/25/Cheney-slams-wrong-us-direction-in-Iraq-.html
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