Pentagon will not disclose the wounded US military in Iraq and Syria
Pentagon will not disclose the wounded US military in Iraq and Syria
22.6.2016 8:38
{International: Euphrates News} A spokesman for the US Department of Defense Pentagon, {}, he said that the US military will not reveal the details of each of its members who are exposed to injuries in Iraq and Syria to avoid transmitting the information to the Daash.
And made Peter Cook spokesman made the comment yesterday in response to a question during a news conference at the headquarters of the ministry in which the liquid sought information on the four Americans were wounded in Syria earlier this month.
Cook said that the army did not change its policy and that it will continue to disclose the total number.
he said Cook: “our policy is not to disclose the identity of the injured for many reasons , including operations security and privacy reasons.”
he continued: ” I do not also want to provide additional information to the enemy may help him improve his assessment of the position battlefield.”
but the Pentagon has already disclose such information and answer questions similar was unclear how consistent comments spokesman with the cases previously detected where all information.
a Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Davis, last month two US military personnel were wounded , one in Iraq and one in Syria during the last week of May last .
Davis said that Iraq was an incident in the north , near Erbil, while the other element in Syria near the tenderness wounded stronghold Daash.
According to Pentagon data to the injury of 16 of the American army during operations since the start of a process aimed at Daash in Iraq and Syria in 2014
and Cook ‘s comments came in the same day which saw the visit of the US President Barack Obama , center {and} Walter Reed Army medical President as he used since the start of his presidency to visit invalids Aljeic.anthy
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