The Washington Post: the anger of Iraqis from the US aviation battle Mosul
The Washington Post: the anger of Iraqis from the US aviation battle Mosul
10.23.2016 11:11
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Washington Post reported the US talked about the frustration military officials of the Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga because of the US role in the process of the restoration of the city of Mosul from Daesh, which began last Monday.
She said the US newspaper that “Iraqi officers and leaders in the Peshmerga were counting on the American air cover to secure the safe progress of ground troops toward the city, but the US wind did not go as crave vehicles and convoys of Iraqi and Kurdish forces that apply to Nineveh province from the south – east, having found itself forgotten without air cover and thus confront militants fire Daesh. ”
An official of the Kurdish forces to the newspaper, speaking on condition of anonymity for the sensitivity of the issue, said that” air support to the United States , which leads the international coalition has been limited, and display the Peshmerga , which opened last Thursday , a new front to losses heavy. ”
He attributed the weak US official air cover in the south – east of Mosul to the multiplicity of fronts, where creeping” tens of thousands “of ground troops from the north and the south and east, as well as busy aircraft bombed Daesh on the border with Syria. According to the newspaper.
It adds the US newspaper that ” the American air cover in previous battles in Fallujah and Ramadi and Sinjar was a double-edged sword, has security fronts across the beaten mortar locations and car bombs, but he ascended, at the same time, [dependency] Iraqi and Kurdish forces “.
this problem was exacerbated in the battle of Mosul, according to US military spokesman in Baghdad, Colonel John Dorian, who spoke about the diversity of objectives and themes which requires intervention Gioia outnumber deployed on the aircraft.”
although Dorian said that the international coalition is working with the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces to address the “problem”, the angry than double the atmospheric interference votes still reluctant among the forces of the Iraqi army and the fight against terrorism and the Peshmerga.
revealed the Washington Post on the complaints of the limited American air strikes, attributed to an armored Division troops ninth army Iraqi spread on the front lines near the town of Goyer, about 25 miles southwest of Mosul.
the newspaper quoted Marwan Abbas, a sergeant in the ninth band, saying that the attribution “US Air is bad”, before confirming the force commander, Lt. Gen. Qassim al – Maliki, these data, and complain about the almost complete absence of American planes from the atmosphere of the front.
also complained of the same thing Kurdish official, he said that some of the themes scattered by the Peshmerga forces experiencing weakness in air support operations compared Palmtouka before the operation , which is articulated in efforts to eliminate Daesh springboard in Iraq.
the US military says about 100 US adviser engaged Iraqi forces and peshmerga in the attack of Mosul, a stronghold of the last Daesh Iraq, and provide advice to the leaders, and helping the coalition to ensure the injury air force correct targets.
the US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter , who visited Baghdad today Sbt- that ” the restoration of the city of Mosul from Daesh process going according to plan, schedule and Baghdad share this assessment , ” and expressed his “satisfaction” the process so far. ”
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