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Canada to deliver weapons to Kurdish forces in Iraq trying to fend off ISIS
QMI Agency via Sun News Network ^ | 2014-08-15 | GIUSEPPE VALIANTE

Posted on 08/16/2014 6:26:32 AM PDT by Clive

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday he will deploy about 30 soldiers and two cargo planes to help deliver weapons and other military supplies to Kurdish forces in Iraq.

A CC-130j Hercules and a CC-177 Globemaster will transport weapons from the U.S. and its allies to the Kurdish Peshmerga who are trying to fend off "the murderous rampage" of the terrorist group ISIS, Harper said in a statement released Friday.

"Canada will not stand idly by while (ISIS) continues its murder of innocent civilians and religious minorities," Harper said.

The two planes are stationed in Cyprus and a senior government source said Canada is waiting for the go-ahead from the U.S. to begin the airlifts.

None of the weapons will be paid for or will come from Canada, an official said.

Canada announced earlier this week that it planned to send food, hygiene kits, cooking materials, blankets, tents, and medical supplies to northern Iraq.

Iraq has been plunged into its worst violence since the peak of a sectarian civil war in 2006-2007, with Sunni fighters led by ISIS overrunning large parts of the west and north, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee for their lives and threatening ethnic Kurds in their autonomous province.

Harper said Friday "this support, which will be in close co-ordination with our allies, will enable Kurdish forces to prove effective protection to Iraqis faced with the barbarous attacks" of ISIS.


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allycanada; canadiantroops; iraq

1 posted on 08/16/2014 6:26:32 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Squawk 8888

Canada ping


2 posted on 08/16/2014 6:28:17 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

“Canada will not stand idly by while (ISIS) continues its murder of innocent civilians and religious minorities,” Harper said.

Canada, just doing the work that the incompetent Progressive/Liberal/Kenyans-Americans won’t, or are not able to, do!


3 posted on 08/16/2014 6:31:03 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: BilLies

Yep, Canada, demonstrating moral leadership of the west since 1979. Way to go, Canada! Eh?


4 posted on 08/16/2014 6:32:37 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Clive

Next thing you know, Canada will be sending Mounties to Saint Louis and Ferguson.


5 posted on 08/16/2014 6:32:37 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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“”Canada is waiting for the go-ahead from the U.S. to begin the airlifts””

Well, “you know who” will manage to screw that up for them. We need 100% photo coverage of the slaughter over there to get people’s attention here!! Every time it is reported that we are ready to help, we learn next that it was all a ploy. There aren’t enough (bad) words in the English language to describe the creep from the WH....


6 posted on 08/16/2014 7:00:24 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Clive

France and Canada are both stepping up to the plate, while the US and UK are shrinking back into the shadows.


7 posted on 08/16/2014 7:06:41 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Never do anything against conscience, even if the State demands it." -Albert Einstein)
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To: Clive

Bump


8 posted on 08/16/2014 7:50:08 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
Thanks Clive. To all Canada Ping subscribers: My apologies for the burst of pings tonight but a totally insane week has kept me off the board. I should be back daily now.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

9 posted on 08/16/2014 5:24:59 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: Clive

Wow, I haven’t even been following the news either. Glad to see Harper keeping it up.


10 posted on 08/16/2014 5:26:11 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: Clive

That is a long trip


11 posted on 08/16/2014 5:26:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Thank You Rush; a fool in paradise
“”Canada is waiting for the go-ahead from the U.S. to begin the airlifts””

Well, there's your problem!

12 posted on 08/16/2014 5:27:50 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Clive

Kudos to Harper.

He should bring in the draft and then call up every bationalist socialist in the NDP and the Liberal Party, who would have voted for Barrack Obama if they lived in the USA, and send them to Irbil to save the Kurds and Yazidis.

That would bring some balance back to Canada and save us from all the jumped up socialist foolishness, draconian economic debacles, gross over taxation and governmental bankruptcy we will soon have to face here.


13 posted on 08/17/2014 3:39:36 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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