Posted on 10/24/2015 9:43:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Iraqi security officials have told MEE that US-led coalition strikes, which follow a stringent protocol, have been too slow, ineffective
The Iraqi government authorised Russia to target Islamic State group convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said.
The authorisation for Russia to target IS inside Iraq comes amid security coordination between Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria.
Hakem al-Zamli, chief of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, told Anadolu Agency on Friday that the measure contributed to weakening IS by cutting off its supply routes.
Earlier this month, Iraqi security officials told MEE that Russia would likely be invited to bomb IS within their country because the US-led coalition air strikes have proved slow and ineffective, largely because stringent protocols were followed.
"They [the US-led coalition] refuse to strike private cars, mosques, bridges, schools despite the fact Daesh militants are mainly using these places as headquarters," a senior military officer, who declined to be named, told MEE, using an Arabic acronym to refer to IS.
The US-led rules, which enforces verification of targets, regularly give IS militants time to save their supplies, equipment and fighters, they said.
"This is an exceptional war and our enemy has no rules," one of the officers said. "How [can] you ask me to stick to the rules while my enemy is brutally killing my people every day, enslaving my sisters and destroy my towns and cities?
"Russians have no red lines, no complicated and restricted rules, so it would be easy for us to deal with them," he said.
Russia, an ally of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, began carrying out air strikes in Syria on 30 September. According to the Kremlin, the strikes are aimed at weakening the IS militant group, an avowed enemy of the regime.
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Barky ain’t gonna like that.
I guess we are just going to give Russia Iraq?
I would have been the first Poster on the Thread, but I fell off my chair in shock when reading the Headline. /s
It is becoming clear who the Iraqis trust, and who they don’t.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Iraq informed Emperor Barky to get our troops OUT of Iraq completely by the end of the year.
“They [the US-led coalition] refuse to strike private cars, mosques, bridges, schools despite the fact Daesh militants are mainly using these places as headquarters,”
Typical.
I wonder what Langley is thinking?
“It is becoming clear who the Iraqis trust, and who they don’t.”
You have that right. Obama is a disaster.
He will take to the air with another hissy fit..
Leading from behind...
>>>I wonder what Langley is thinking?<<<
They work for Obama, nobody bothers thinking anymore.
The enemy knows Obama and they know that he imposes no violence zones. The Russians understand that the enemy cannot feel safe, no matter where. Kill them, and if the worldwide press objects to the collateral damage of civilians, the Russians say FU and go about their business.
Can we pay russia to take over saudi, and destroy the moon rock?
This is so basic that I will get banned if I post what I think of the utter stupidity, among other things, of this Administration.
This is what happens when the lawyers call the shots for DoD and CIA. Iraq went with Russia. Free market competition.
OUR ENTIRE FOREIGN POLICY IS A JOKE. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIED OR MAIMED FROM INJURY - ALL FOR NOTHING!
We don't need another hostage crisis or our troops cut off and trapped between to warring factions with Buckwheat in the Oral Orifice.
BUG OUT TIME!
It’s almost like no other leaders have any respect for Obama.
Good thing he’s not a cowboy.
And shake his Nobel Peace Prize at them.
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