American forces stopped exchanging intelligence information with the Iraqis for fear of leaks to the Assad regime
American forces stopped exchanging intelligence information with the Iraqis for fear of leaks to the Assad regime
02-10-2014 08:45 AM
An Iraqi official said the Americans have become not share sensitive information with the Iraqi side, fearing that lead to leaked to the Syrian regime.
According to the official, the Americans fear that the continuation of ‘leaking information provided by Baghdad to Damascus in relation to the operations of the international coalition, to capitalize on the system, including the strengthening of its positions on the ground at the expense of the Syrian opposition, stressing that’ the Americans have stopped a few days ago for the exchange of information with the Chamber Joint Coordination in Baghdad, which may be for this reason. ‘
The Syrian foreign minister, Walid Muallem, has announced inform Washington of the system date of the air strikes, which was denied by the United States, to return the teacher to the assertion that Baghdad is informed him of this.
Commenting on the subject, says Iraqi political analyst, Fouad Ali, said that ‘Americans have become more cautious in the process of information exchange with Iraqi leaders, and are afraid to be able Assad regime from exploiting the Iraqi regime to obtain such information, which is what it seemed obvious to stop Iraqi forces from the announcement of the raids by the international coalition to announce it herself. ‘
It draws on the (according to the website ‘new Arab’), that ‘the coming days may see changes in a series of positions of security and intelligence mission in Baghdad carried out by al-Abadi pressure from the Americans, be complementary to the process of cleansing precedent carried Abadi right military leaders in several joints of the military institution ‘.
Washington accuses some Iraqi leaders, led by Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari leaking information to Damascus, including the date of the coalition attack on Syria and a number of sites the organization, most recently oil sites.
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