Posted on 03/30/2015 1:30:27 PM PDT by Lorianne
Since the U.S.-led coalition planes launched their first airstrikes in the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit on Wednesday night, threats and accusations from Shiite militias who were leading the battle there have grown. Several of the Iranian-backed groups accused coalition aircraft of bombing a headquarters for pro-government fighters in the city on Friday, promising retribution.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad released a statement Friday rebutting the claim, saying there were no coalition strikes in the vicinity at the time, and the Iraqi government also said no such attack took place.
The claim was the latest in a long string of accusations leveled at the United States since its first airstrikes against the Islamic State in August. Rumors of coalition planes dropping weapons supplies to Islamic State militants and attacking pro-government fighters are now widely held beliefs in a country where conspiracy theories are rife.
But that enmity for the United States circulates beyond the militias that once fought U.S. soldiers, surfacing also in parliamentary debates and Iraqi media reports and even at the highest ranks of the national armed forces that the United States is aiding.
“Everybody knows that the Americans are dropping supplies to Daesh,” said Brig. Gen. Abed al-Maliki, a senior Iraqi army commander based in the city of Samarra, about 80 miles north of Baghdad, using another term for the Islamic State.
What’s more, he said, during some of the fiercest fighting around Samarra last year, U.S. Special Operations forces dropped behind enemy lines to assist Islamic State militants.
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No surprise here. The U.S. has had an enemy in the Oval Office for over six years.
ya...
We have that problem here in D.C......
We might think of them as enemies now but to Barack Obama they are his future constituencies.
“Rumors of coalition planes dropping weapons supplies to Islamic State militants and attacking pro-government fighters are now widely held beliefs in a country where conspiracy theories are rife.”
What country are they talking about? Iraq or the U.S.!?
Years ago I would have said these guys are nuts and just trying to provoke things (like all of the Afghan “weddings” that were bombed while Bush was president). Now I’m more inclined to view them as eyewitnesses that could be used for obama’s trial.
What are the odds that that Abed al-Maliki is related to Nouri al-Maliki, who was ousted for creating ISIS with his sectarian anti-Sunni Arab policies - including allegedly indicting Iraq’s Sunni Arab VP on trumped-up charges for murder? In picking Nour al-Maliki for Iraqi leader, Bush dropped the ball, same as he did in Afghanistan by picking Karzai.
If there are enemies on both sides, then bomb both sides! ... :-) ...
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