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Iran Secretly Sending Drones and Supplies into Iraq, U.S. Officials Say
New York Times ^ | June 25, 2014 | By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT

Posted on 06/25/2014 8:18:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BRUSSELS — Iran is directing surveillance drones over Iraq from an airfield in Baghdad and is secretly supplying Iraq with tons of military equipment, supplies and other assistance, American officials said. Tehran has also deployed an intelligence unit there to intercept communications, the officials said.

The secret Iranian programs are part of a broader effort by Tehran to gather intelligence and help Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government in its struggle against Sunni militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s paramilitary Quds Force, has visited Iraq at least twice to help Iraqi military advisers plot strategy. And Iran has deployed about a dozen other Quds Force officers to advise Iraqi commanders, and help mobilize more than 2,000 Shiite militiamen from southern Iraq, American officials said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: almaliki; arabspring; axisofevil; failure; iran; iraqmeltdown; isis; leadingfrombehind
Axis of evil.
1 posted on 06/25/2014 8:18:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone kill ISIS, jeez. They’re a crappy, poorly trained military force that run their trucks in a straight line from town to town.

Light ‘em up.


2 posted on 06/25/2014 8:21:15 AM PDT by struggle
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Axis of evil

And which side is that? If Iran is stepping up to stop the ISIS maniacs, it's stopping the monster US meddling created.

3 posted on 06/25/2014 8:21:17 AM PDT by grania
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To: Dog

Ping


4 posted on 06/25/2014 8:21:19 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: grania

Which side is Obama on ? Which ever side wins ?


5 posted on 06/25/2014 8:23:14 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some secret, were they supposed to inform the NYT first?


6 posted on 06/25/2014 8:27:00 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: grania

Did you ever think you would ever see the day where the US supported terrorism more than Iran?


7 posted on 06/25/2014 8:28:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are these Iranian drones replicas of the one they picked up after one of ours “landed” in their desert?


8 posted on 06/25/2014 8:40:08 AM PDT by gdzla
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To: molson209

“..Which side is Obama on ? Which ever side wins ?”

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Certainly not America’s side. That is a pretty solid starting point...


9 posted on 06/25/2014 8:40:57 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: grania

But as long as Obama supports them, like he does the Syrian rebels, and the Muslim Brotherhood who are behind it all, not going to happen.


10 posted on 06/25/2014 8:42:47 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, when the dust settles, who will be the “good guys” and who will have cut and run? Either way we come out covered with poo. Just when you think the Obamites couldn’t embarass America more...


11 posted on 06/25/2014 8:44:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s not a secret if even the NY Times knows about it.


12 posted on 06/25/2014 9:17:59 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: struggle
Someone kill ISIS, jeez. They’re a crappy, poorly trained military force that run their trucks in a straight line from town to town.

If Obama had a tribe of sons running around in pickup trucks building the New Caliphate...


13 posted on 06/25/2014 9:28:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: struggle

Iran is anti-ISIS.

That poorly trained military force dares to run their Toyota trucks in a straight line because they know that the US is not going to do anything about it.

Don’t you think that they have intelligence sources right here in Washington DC? There are enough muzzies here who keep their ISIS buddies informed.


14 posted on 06/25/2014 10:06:48 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: struggle

We need to think outside the box. If Iran is fighting “terrorists” we were fighting five years ago....then this isn’t all bad. Maybe we can help tip the scales to keep ISSIS and Iran fighting a protracted war. I remember hearing Kissinger stay about the Iran-Iraq war, “It’s too bad both sides can’t lose.” Well maybe we can keep them both busy for another 8 years.


15 posted on 06/25/2014 10:09:05 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: 353FMG
Don’t you think that they have intelligence sources right here in Washington DC? There are enough muzzies here who keep their ISIS buddies informed.

There are plenty right in the Obama administration.


16 posted on 06/25/2014 11:12:11 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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