Report: Iraq allows Washington to launch air strikes against Daash

Report: Iraq allows Washington to launch air strikes against Daash

12-06-2014 02:53 PM

F16's to IraqAllowed the government of Nouri al-Maliki to Oashtun air strikes on al Daash who dominated the cities of Tikrit and Mosul, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal ‘, as reported’ Enyork Times’ that al-Maliki request secretly from Washington to launch air strikes on militants. officials said in Iraq that they would allow the United States to launch air strikes against militants linked to al Qaeda in northern Iraq, as quoted by the ‘Wall Street Journal’ U.S. officials on Wednesday evening (June 11). This comes after the militants overran the organization ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,’ the cities of Tikrit and Mosul Aerakitin. said senior U.S. officials said the administration of President Barack Obama is considering a range of options, including air strikes carried out by drones or manned aircraft. Iraq had previously filed a request for the supply of U.S. drone aircraft for the special forces for use against the militants, but Washington rejected the request so far. In a related development, The New York Times, citing U.S. and Iraqi officials that al-Maliki secretly request of the administration of President Barack Obama is considering air strikes to assembly points for the armed Sunni militants pose a growing threat to his government. The newspaper quoted U.S. experts visited Baghdad earlier this year, saying that the Iraqi leaders told them they hope the possibility of using the U.S. Air Force to hit the assembly points and training to militants in Iraq and help the Iraqi forces to prevent them from crossing the country to Syria. Ban Ki-moon calls for the international community to Iraq support his part, called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon Wednesday the international community to unite behind Iraq, which faces a crawl for the fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, who are close to Baghdad. A spokesman for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said in a statement that ‘the Secretary-General urges the international community to unite to express solidarity with Iraq, which is facing a serious challenge on the security front.’ He added that he ‘strongly condemns the escalating violence in Iraq (the hands of) terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which seized control of Mosul and Tuz and Baiji and Tikrit.’ The Secretary-General also called on to ‘respect for international humanitarian law and human rights in steps aimed at countering terrorism and violence in Iraq.’ He said he was ‘not entitled to defeat terrorism that the road to democracy, drawn by the will of the Iraqi people’. Daash vows to march to Karbala and Najaf on the ground, called for the organization to continue to Daash ‘crawl’ south toward Baghdad and the Shiite holy city of Karbala. Said Abu Mohammed Adnani, one of the most prominent leaders of the organization ‘Islamic state’ and his spokesman, in a speech posted on the sites concerned with the news of the jihadists ‘continued Zhvkm it is meaty contested after, you will not be protected only in Baghdad and Karbala Fathsmoa and Tjhezwa.’ added ‘rolled up helped Grandpa does not waiver of an inch Hrrtamoh (…) and Azhvo to Baghdad Al Rasheed, Baghdad Caliphate, where we have an account liquidation, Subhohm on the walls Do not let them pick up their breath ‘. The face Adnani in his speech, titled ‘What happened to you from God is good’, a message to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has ruled the country since 2006 and is trying to stay on top of the government for a third term. Adnani said: ‘It is true that our liquidation of the account (…) the expense of heavy long, but the liquidation of the account will not be in Baghdad or Samarra, but Almngesh in Karbala and Najaf and waited Acrk that you are waiting.’

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