Posted on 06/15/2014 3:20:59 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said that a "small number of Defense Department personnel" are augmenting State Department security assets in Baghdad. Kirby said that the relocation of some embassy personnel is being done with commercial, charter and State Department aircraft flights.
U.S. military can airlift people if the State Department asks for that, Kirby said.
While that continues, Iran has recently entered the fray, according to a senior security official in Baghdad who spoke to CNN on Friday. That official said that in recent days, Iran has sent about 500 Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops to fight alongside Iraqi government security forces in Iraq's Diyala province.
However, Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani, denied reports that some of its elite forces are in Iraq to help bolster al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite.
"If the Iraqi government wants us to help, we will consider it," Rouhani said, according to an English translation of his remarks Saturday in Farsi by state-run Press TV.
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Just could be that there are activities within the embassy which are yielding high level actionable intelligence which can’t be obtained elsewhere. Those activities will be the last ones to be evacuated. Their classified holdings on site are down to the absolute minimum.
#BringBackOurHeads
Bengazi all over!
Wasn’t kerry supposed to be taking care of this or was he back in Vietnam paddling a boat up some Cambodian river?
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