Posted on 12/01/2015 12:12:39 PM PST by Mariner
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim armed groups on Tuesday rejected and pledged to fight any deployment of U.S. forces to the country after the United States said it was sending an elite special operations unit to combat Islamic State.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter offered few details on the new "expeditionary" group, but said it would be larger than the roughly 50 U.S. special operations troops being sent to Syria to fight the ultra-hardline Sunni militants there.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the new force will be based in Iraq.
"We will chase and fight any American force deployed in Iraq," said Jafaar Hussaini, a spokesman for one of the groups, Kata'ib Hezbollah. "Any such American force will become a primary target for our group. We fought them before and we are ready to resume fighting."
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Let them fight ISIS alone and pull all US forces from the region.
They are ISIS
...or conquer Iraq, take to oil fields, break it up into States, install the US Constitution, a representative Republic and build a wall around the entire country with the oil profits.
Americashmier
I see that he mentions that they have fought us before, but he fails to note how we kicked their rears with extreme prejudice... twice.
they are sharia....sharia always has been at war with US.
Hard to tell the moderate head-choppers from the radical ones?
The moderates use sharper knives.
And the Shiites are enemies of ISIS. We should just pull out completely and let them kill each other.
American forces should support the Kurds who are fighting ISIS and leave the other ungrateful Iraqis who are pretending to fight ISIS to fend for themselves.
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