Washington is moving to withdraw confidence from Maliki before any military intervention
Washington is moving to withdraw confidence from Maliki before any military intervention
19/06/2014 three twenty-eight PM
Orbit – Washington / shows President Barack Obama, under pressure from U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to convince Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to step down because of what they see as a failure of leadership in the face of a rebellion displays his country at risk. While Obama held a meeting with congressional leaders to discuss the options the U.S. in Iraq, joined by senior officials in the government U.S. to a group critical of the owners and be blamed for error in the treatment of sectarian divisions exploited by the militants militants. Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chief of Staff of the U.S. in the session of Congress that the government of al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led government asked the air force U.S. to help in addressing the Sunni insurgents who overran the north of the country. He did not say you will meet Gen. Washington and the Iraqi request or not, but Dempsey pointed out that the U.S. military is not in a hurry to launch air strikes in Iraq, pointing to the need to clarify the volatile situation on the ground so they can choose any targets ‘rational’. It seems that Obama agrees to a large extent with the army in this opinion. briefed Obama, congressional leaders on Wednesday on the situation in Iraq and accept them as it considers options ‘to increase security assistance’ to this country, which is struggling fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. said the White House a statement after the meeting in the Oval Office and lasted more than an hour ‘Chair reported on U.S. government efforts to counter the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by urging Iraq’s leaders to set aside sectarian agendas that unite a sense of national unity.’ said a senior official in the government American then that Obama did not decide at the meeting a particular course of action and that it has not yet made a final decision. said a source in the U.S. national security that the Obama administration has quietly started to consult with Congress on a plan to redirect some of the current funding for intelligence to help fund U.S. operations in Iraq. The White House said U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke to three of the Iraqi leaders on Wednesday to induce autism in the face of militants organizing the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and the emphasis on the need to form a government that includes all the spectra after the general elections on April 30 / April. Biden spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and rival Sunni speaker of parliament Osama Najafi and Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. , and the White House said in a statement about the telephone conversations’ in every conversation stressed the Vice President also emphasized the need for national unity in the face of the threat from al Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant all Iraqi sects and coordination on security issues in the future and to move forward aggressively towards the formation of a new government under the Constitution. ‘ says the United States, which withdrew its troops from Iraq in 2011 that Baghdad must take steps toward sectarian reconciliation before deciding Obama any military action against the insurgency , who led the organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an offshoot of the al-Qaida network. did not appear to al-Maliki, yet little willingness to form a government more accommodating each spectra. said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein head of the Intelligence Committee in the Senate ‘Frankly .. Maliki government should go if you want any reconciliation.’ and called on Republican Sen. John McCain, speaking in the Senate to the use of air power in Iraq, but also urged Obama to ‘make it clear to the owners that his time is over.’ did not ask the Obama administration publicly departure Maliki, but showed signs of resentment from him. said Defense Minister Chuck Hagel in the session of Congress ‘this current government in Iraq has not done at all commitments made to form a government of national unity with Sunnis and Kurds and Shiites.’ said White House spokesman Jay Carney said al-Maliki did not do what enough ‘to govern in a way that is inclusive and not exclusion, and that he contributed to the creation of the situation and the crisis that we are witnessing today in Iraq.’ Carney did not reach to the extent of calling the departure of al-Maliki. Asked Carney you should step down al-Maliki said, ‘It is clear that this is not us that we decide.’ Earlier, White House officials said that Obama has not yet made a decision on what action should be taken, but the president has ruled out the possibility of re-forces to carry out combat role there . And opposed by some in the anti-war camp in the Democratic Party for Obama any military action may drag the United States back into conflict. said Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the Senate after meeting with Obama that the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ‘poses a real threat’ to U.S. interests. He was quoted as saying in a statement, ‘Unfortunately, that Iraqi security forces are far less capable than it was when the withdrawal of the president all of our troops (at the end of 2011).’ and focused a lot of attention on the possibility of the implementation of the air strikes, whether military aircraft, or drone, but U.S. officials have made clear They are worried about the possibility of injuring the wrong targets and causing casualties of civilians. include options under consideration to intensify the training of Iraqi forces, possibly using U.S. special forces and expedite the delivery of weapons and increase the activities of the exchange of intelligence information. According to U.S. officials recently that any role of the U.S. military will be directed to the selective and that if the government decided to proceed with the Obama strikes, they may be limited attacks unmanned aircraft such as those used in Pakistan and Yemen.
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