Posted on 06/19/2015 7:12:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration recognizes that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi “has to reach out to his neighbors,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday in response to queries about Abadi’s meetings with Iran’s top leaders.
During his visit to Tehran, Abadi appears to have been accompanied by a man named by the U.S. government during the Iraqi war as responsible for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces. […]
On the Iranian president’s website, one of the photographs of his meeting with the Iraqi prime minister shows Rouhani greeting a man—apparently a member of the Iraqi delegation—identified by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
In 2009, the U.S. designated Muhandis, a Shi’ite militant also known as Jamal Ibrahimi, as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” (SDGT) for committing, directing or supporting acts of violence against U.S. and Iraqi forces. …
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It must hurt the once distinguished Admiral Kirby to have to become the chief news harf at State.
Why shouldn’t he visit Iran? The Iraqis have to get along with those people as best they can — they’re not stupid enough to believe that they can rely on the USA for protection.
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