Posted on 06/26/2014 10:09:22 AM PDT by tired&retired
When the first of the 300 military advisers US President Barack Obama promised the Iraqi government arrived in Baghdad Wednesday, June 25, Iranian and Saudi Arabian arms shipments were already in full flow to opposing sides in embattled Iraq, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. At least two cargo planes from bases in Iran were landing daily at Baghdad’s military airport, carrying 150 tons of military equipment. More than 1,000 tons were flown in this past week alone. Tehran has replicated for the Iraqi army the routine it established for Bashar Assad’s army, furnishing its needs on a daily basis as per its commanders’ requests.
Those requests come before a joint Iranian-Iraqi headquarters set up at the Iraqi high command in Baghdad for approval and the assigning of priorities for shipment.
US Secretary of State John Kerry meant when he said in Brussels Wednesday June 25, after two days of talks in Iraq, that "the war in Iraq is being widened."
He had good reason to sound worried. Shortly before he spoke, the first group of US military personnel, out of the 300 that President Obama had promised, had arrived in Baghdad. But neither Tehran nor Riyadh had consulted Washington before they organized heavy arms shipments to their respective allies in Iraq.
The Iraqi battle arena is become a veritable Babel of war. So far, seven countries are involved in varying degrees: the US, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
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The response was swift. Syrian warplanes, on their first bombing mission inside Iraq, tried to damage the partially repaired runways at H-2 to prevent any more Saudi air shipments from landing.
Military sources in Washington confirmed Wednesday June 25 that those air strikes were conducted by the Syrian Air Force “in Anbar province” and left at least 57 people dead and 120 wounded - most of them Iraqi civilians. They declined to say what was attacked, referring only to ISIS-related targets.
That incident was a striking demonstration of the tight operational sync between the Iranian command centers in Damascus and Baghdad, which are attached respectively to the high commands of the Syrian and Iraqi armies.
This coordination offers Tehran the flexibility for its command centers in both Arab capitals to send Iranian drones aloft from Syrian or Iraqi airbases to feed those centers with the intelligence they need for the strategic planning of military operations to be conducted by the Syrian and Iraqi armies.
Can’t anyone take action besides Obama? He’s sold us out! We’re going to have terrorists in our neighborhood.
THAT’LL show ‘em!!!
Ohhhhh, we’ll have those bad rebels shaking in their boots before Wednesday!
“Here come the American ADVISORS!!! Run Habib, RUN!!!”
We need to march on Washington to stop ISIS. Obama’s running out the clock until his Muslim brothers have advanced on the U.S.
Time to drag out the old Neutron Bomb.
They can just walk across the border.
Iraq is ripe for a war by proxy. Everyone in the region with any kind of dog in this hunt will bolster its side, cause, faction etc behind the scenes while officially denying its involvement.
They’re already in place and have been there, waiting for orders, since the day we allowed muzzies to immigrate.
Checked your local mosque yet?
Debka posits enough novelistic material for any number of authors in the military thriller genre, but that’s all it provides - fictional scenarios posing as news.
.”first of the 300 military advisers”...
What? I thought it was limited to 275?
Mission creep already from the boy king on cannon fodder for his muzzie buddies?
All in or all out. Nothing in between. This is BS.
doomed ..none of our ducks are in a row.
bkmk
Why isn't Obama ordering flyover bombing runs over these straight and tidy columns of black flags? Oh never mind.. I guess OBAMA IS THE ONE WHO GAVE THEM OUR EQUIPMENT!!
I imagine they have been...Why else would Obama facilitate this fiasco of an open Southern border???
Muslims have been coming across our border for a couple of years now. This allows more of them and more drugs to cross the border while the border patrol and the media is all focused on the children. This is a well orchestrated and coordinated action.
Expect to see lots more fruits of islam and MS-13 types showing up in our country. They are Obama’s allies.
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