Posted on 10/05/2015 6:03:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Najaf (Iraq) (AFP) - A top leader of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation paramilitary organisation said Monday that Baghdad had turned to Russia because the US-led coalition was not serious about fighting the Islamic State group.
A spokesman for the US-led coalition retorted that it had spent $2.3 billion to train and equip Iraqi forces over the past year.
"To this day, we have not seen a really serious effort to fight Daesh," Hadi al-Ameri said in the holy city of Najaf, using an Arab acronym for the jihadist organisation.
"There are some who try to contain Daesh but not really eliminate them and prevent those fighters from returning to Europe, which is where they came from," he said.
Ameri is a key MP in the Badr movement, a Tehran-backed Shiite party which also has a powerful military wing. He was speaking at a conference organised by Badr's Al-Ghadeer television channel.
"This lack of seriousness of the international coalition made us change tack. Russia is moving in a very serious way against Daesh," he said.
Russian warplanes began air strikes in Syria last week.
Moscow says it has been targeting IS, but Washington and its allies say Russia does not distinguish between IS and other groups and accuses the Kremlin of being focused on protecting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime.
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Headed to Europia..
Iraqi men and a member (C) of the Iraqi security forces take selfies as they prepare to leave at the international airport in Najaf, south of Baghdad, September 4, 2015. Some Iraqi soldiers are abandoning their posts and joining a wave of civilian migrants headed to Europe, raising new doubts about the cohesion of the country's Western-backed security forces in the fight against Islamic State militants. Picture taken September 4, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
The USA is serious, Obozo is not.
It seems that we have not bombed ISIS at all and instead been bombing Assad forces which if true mean fairy boy started a war with another country which again is illegal.
Now where is ANSWER and all the other left wing nuts groups to protest. Oh wait they only do that when a republican is in office the hypocrites.
Even the muzzies have caught on to Obama’s play acting.
He doesn’t really want to wipe ISIS out, he just wants people to think that is his goal.
That is why he is so upset with Putin.
He is afraid Putin really will damage ISIS.
He is right.
"Moscow says it has been targeting IS,"
Which is being verified more each day.
" but Washington and its allies say Russia does not distinguish between IS and other groups"
Why should they ? It's a distinction without a difference.
" and accuses the Kremlin of being focused on protecting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime."
Duh. In chess, there is no next move if you lose your King.
Looks like a picture of battle scarred 13 year old Christian refugee girls escaping the horror of a brutal dictator.
The Christian Russians will fight those sorry dogs in a “holy war” and they will win!!
Like our southwestern border as well. Obama isn’t serious about border security either.
About the only things he’s serious about are raising taxes, spending money on queers and illegals and stripping liberty from Americans.
He is right.
I have believed that Hussein, seen as a Moslem activist has had things all his own way just about everywhere and was setting up a nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel that he, as a Sunni, hoped would destroy two of the three great enemies of Islam. He is personally working on that third enemy, America.
I think Putin put the first spanner in the gears that Hussein has experienced.
And ultimately bringing Shariah to America.
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