Iranian terrorists. Anyone know if the Kurds have a military leader?
related: Breitbart News
Report: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Soleimani Aiding Iraqi Invasion Against Kurds
by John Hayward 10/26/2017 excerpt
Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the notorious Quds Force division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has reportedly been seen in Iraq advising Shiite militias in their attack on the Kurdish Peshmerga, a major U.S. battlefield ally against the Islamic State.
Soleimani was involved in talks between Iran-backed “Popular Mobilization Forces” (PMF) militia units and Iraqi Kurds on Sunday, not long before the first reports of armed clashes between the PMF and Peshmerga.
Soleimani’s Quds Force, which Iran employs to destabilize adversary governments across the Middle East, was instrumental in training and arming the Shiite-dominated militia groups against the Islamic State (ISIS), which is organized around a version of Sunni Islam.
Soleimani reportedly “arrived in the Iraqi Kurdish region on Saturday and visited the tomb of former Iraqi president and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party leader Jalal Talabani, who died on October 3 after years of poor health,” according to a report at the National.
oh, also from Breitbart...
come to think of it, is Kelly keeping this news from Trump?
excerpt 10/16/207 Frances Martel:
Trump MIA as U.S. Coalition Brands Iran-Backed Militia Assault on Kurds ‘Misunderstanding’
President Donald Trump has yet to personally weigh in—either through official White House outlets or on Twitter—on the burgeoning civil war in Kirkuk, Iraq, following the invasion of the Kurdish-held province by Iraqi soldiers and Iran-backed Shiite militias.
The U.S.-led Global Coalition has called the attack on the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) military, the Peshmerga, a “misunderstanding,” while the U.S. embassy in Baghdad expressed “concern” regarding the invasion in a statement Monday.
President Trump repeatedly asserted support for the Kurdish people, whose Peshmerga and Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) have played an outsized role in defeating the Islamic State (ISIS), as a candidate for president in 2016. Following the KRG holding a referendum on seceding from Iraq, however, the U.S. State Department has backed the Iraqi government against Kurdish independence aspirations, and Trump himself has remained silent.