Posted on 04/27/2009 11:24:50 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
Updated: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:30GMT—7:30AM/EST
Washington, 27 April (WashingtonTV)—The US military on Sunday insisted that a raid it had conducted in the southern Iraqi city of Kut, was approved by the Iraqi government, despite Baghdad’s insistence that the action violated a US-Iraqi security pact.
In a pre-dawn raid targeting Shiite militants, US forces shot dead an Iraqi woman and policeman, and detained six others. In a statement, the US military said that the woman was killed after she “moved into the line of fire.”
“In an operation fully coordinated and approved by the Iraqi government, coalition forces targeted a network financier, who is also responsible for smuggling weapons into the country,” the statement said.
However, an official in the office of Major-General Qassim Moussawi, Baghdad’s security spokesperson, said that the raid was “a violation of the security pact,” reports Reuters.
Under the security pact that came into force earlier this year, US troops can no longer conduct military operations in Iraq without the government’s approval.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry sent a special delegation to Kut to investigate the incident. According to Reuters, the committee “managed to get the six people detained by the Americans released.”
The US military said the six people were accused of receiving funds, arms and training from Iran.
The Iraqi military yesterday detained two of its own commanders, accused of permitting the US military of carrying out the operation “without the knowledge of the defense ministry of the Iraqi government,” Defense Ministry spokesperson, Major-General Mohammad al-Askari, told AFP.
Sources: Multi-National Force in Iraq website, Reuters, Agence France-Presse
January 2013: President Palin instructs Attorney General Mark Levin to prosecute Obama for war crimes.
More details that this was an approved mission, lily.
The talk about prosecution is posturing for local consumption, but it’s the consequence of setting a firm departure date. The government did the same sort of thing a few years back when its position was shaky and it was pandering to the Shia. Then, the surge came along, and the government started acting like a government for all the Iraqi people. All that is gone now, they’re looking at that departure date and trying to protect themselves from the factions again. Precisely what Bush said would happen.
Thankless roaches.
The shoe-throwing incident did it for me, and this is just confirmation.
I like your tagline.
Anyway, did Pompous Pretend President even wait to be inaugurated before he made his declaration of firm withdrawal date? It was mistake #1. By now, I have lost count.....
Must be the Iraqi-gov’t-arranged ambush of US forces didn’t work out.
There’s a very long list of ‘what did it for me’...they can go pound sand head first.
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